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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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39, 1792.

Speech by Birotteau: "Fifty members against 690...

About twenty former nobles, fifteen or twenty priests, and a dozen September judges (want to prevail against) 700 deputies."-- Ibid., 851 (Dec.26, on the motion to defer the trial of the king): "About fifty voices, with energy, No! no!"-- Ibid., 865, (Dec.27, a violent speech by Lequinio, applauded by the extreme "Left" and the galleries; the president calls them to order): "The applause continues of about fifty members of the extreme 'Left.' "-- Mortimer-Ternaux, VI.557.

(Address by Tallien to the Parisians, Dec.23, against the banishment of the Duke of Orleans): "To-morrow, under the vain pretext of another measure of general safety, the 60 or 80 members who on account of their courageous and inflexible adherence to principles are offensive to the Brissotine faction, will be driven out."-- Moniteur, XV.

74 (Jan.


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