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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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I want all the owners of property who have grabbed everything and excited the people's anger, to kill the tyrants themselves or else be killed." Applause--April 3.:--Ibid., 302 (in the Convention, April 8): "Marat demands that 100,000 relatives and friends of the emigres be seized as hostages for the safety of the commissioners in the hands of the enemy."-- Cf.

Balleydier, 117, 122.

At Lyons, Jan.

26, 1793, Challier addresses the central club: "Sans-culottes, rejoice! the blood of the royal tiger has flowed in sight of his den! But full justice is not yet done to the people There are still 500 among you deserving of the tyrant's fate!"-- He proposes on the 5th of February a revolutionary tribunal for trying arrested persons in a revolutionary manner.

"It is the only way to force it (the Revolution) on royal and aristocratic factionists, the only rational way to avenge the sovereignty of the brave sans-culottes, who belong only to us."-- --Hydens, a national commissioner adds: "Let 25,000,000 of Frenchmen perish a hundred times over rather than one single indivisible Republic!"] [Footnote 33116: Mallet du Pan, the last expression.] [Footnote 33117: Buzot, 64.] [Footnote 33118: Michelet, IV.


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