27 .-- The saying is the summary of the revolutionary spirit; it recurs constantly .-- Cf.

the Duc de Montpensier, "Memoires," p.

11.
At Aix one of his guards said to the sans-culotte who were breaking into the room where he had been placed: "Citizens, by what order do you enter here?
and why have you forced the guard at the door ?" One of them.
answered: "By order of the people.

Don't you know that the people is sovereign ?"] [Footnote 3211: "Archives Nationales," letter of the public prosecutor, May 23 .-- Letters of the administrators of the department, May 22, and 27 (on the events of the 13th of May at Beausset).] [Footnote 3212: "Archives Nationales," F7 3193 and 3194.

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