[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 55/90
Out of 36 other functionaries of various kinds 35 voted for death.
Among the remaining regicides we again find 2 councillors of state, 4 diplomatic agents and consuls, 2 generals, 2 receiver-generals, 1 commissary-general of the police, 1 minister in the cabinet of King Joseph, the minister of police, and the arch-chancellor of the empire.] [Footnote 3334: Buchez et Roux, XIX, 97, session of Sept.
25, 1792. Marat states: "'I have many personal enemies in this assembly.' 'All! all!' exclaim the entire Assembly, indignantly rising."-- Ibid., XIX.
9, 49, 63, 338.] [Footnote 3335: "Right" and "Left", only refers to the right and left wings of the hemicycles of the hall in which the Assembly meets.
The Plain and the Mountain refer to the same Assembly but here to those on the lower or the upper benches.( SR).] [Footnote 3336: Meillan, "Memoires," 20 .-- Buchez et Roux, XXVI.
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