"The calm which now appear to prevail in Paris will soon be disturbed if the prices of the prime necessities of life do not shortly diminish."-- (Ibid., May 25).
"Complaints against dear food increase daily end this circumstance looks as if it might become one of the motives of forthcoming events."] [Footnote 3356: Schmidt, I.198 (Dutard, May 9).] [Footnote 3357: Schmidt, I.350; II.

6 (Dutard, May 30, June 7 and 8).] [Footnote 3358: Durand-Maillane,100: "The Girondist party was yet more impious than Robespierre."-- A deputy having demanded that mention should be made of the Supreme Being in the preamble of the constitution, Vergniaud replied: "We have no more to do with Numa's nymph than with Mahomet's pigeon; reason is sufficient to give France a good constitution."-- Buchez et Roux, XIII.444.Robespierre having spoken of the Emperor Leopold's death as a stroke of Providence, Guadet replies that he sees "no sense in that idea," and blames Robespierre for "endeavoring to return the people to slavery of superstition."-- Ibid., XXVI.

63 (session of April 19, 1793).

Speech by Vergniaud against article IX of the Declaration of Rights, which states that "all men are free to worship as they please." This article, says Vergniaud, "is a result of the despotism and superstition under which we have so long languished."-- Salle: "I ask the Convention to draw up an article by which each citizen, whatever his form of worship, shall bind himself to submit to the law "-- Lanjuinais, who often ranked along with the Girondists, is a Catholic and confirmed Gallican.] [Footnote 3359: Schmidt, I.347 (Dutard, May 30).

"What do I now behold?
A discontented people hating the Convention, all its administrators, and the actual state of things generally."] [Footnote 3360: Schmidt, I.278.