[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 (of 6) CHAPTER III 5/90
The Paris assembly fraternizes with the Versailles slaughterers and the assassins of the mayor of Etampes.
The assembly of the Bouches-du-Rhone gives a certificate o virtue to Jourdan, the Glaciere murderer.
The assembly of Seine-et-Marne applauds the proposal to cast a cannon which might contain the head of Louis XVI.
for a cannon-ball to be fired at the enemy .-- It is not surprising that an electoral body without self-respect should respect nothing, and practice self-mutilation under the pretext of purification.[3322] The object of the despotic majority was to reign at once, without any contest, on its own authority, and to expel all offensive electors.
At Paris, in the Aisne, in Haute-Loire, in Ille-et-Vilaine, in Maine-et-Loire, it excludes as unworthy the members of old Feuillants and monarchical clubs, and the signers of Constitutionalist protests.
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