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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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Official report of the Electoral Assembly of the Bouches-du-Rhone, speech by Durand-Maillane: "Could I in the National Convention be otherwise than I have been in relation to the former Louis XVI., who, after his flight on the 22d of June, appeared to me unworthy of the throne?
Can I do otherwise than abhor royalty, after so many of our regal crimes ?"] [Footnote 3315: Moniteur, XIII.

623, session of Sept.

8, speech by Lariviere.--"Archives Nationales," CII., 1 to 83.

(The official reports make frequent mention of the dispatch of this comparative lists, and the Jacobins who send it request the Electoral Assembly to have it read forthwith.)] [Footnote 3316: Retif de la Bretonne, "Les Nuits de Paris," Night X.p.
301: "As soon as the primary assemblies had been set up, the plotters began to work, electors were nominated, and through the vicious system adopted in the sections, an uproar made it out for a majority of voices."-- Cf.


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