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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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This Anglo-American, however radical he may be, relies on nothing but experience and example in his political discussions.] [Footnote 3339: Cf.

The memoirs of Buzot, Barbaroux, Louvet, Madame Roland, etc.] [Footnote 3340: And for some incomprehensible reason still in fashion at the end of the 20th Century.

(SR).] [Footnote 3341: Buchez et Roux, XXIV.102.

(Plan drawn up by Condorcet, and reported in the name of the Committee on the Constitution, April 15 and 16, 1793.) Condorcet adds to this a report of his own, of which he publishes and abstract in the Chronique de Paris.] [Footnote 3342: Buchez et Roux, XXIV.102.

Condorcet's abstract contains the following extraordinary sentence: "In all free countries the influence of the populace is feared with reason; but give all men the same rights and there will be no populace."] [Footnote 3343: Cf.


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