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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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on this mechanical need and inveterate habit of receiving orders from the central authority, Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," 490: "Dumouriez' soldiers said to him: 'F--, papa general, get the Convention to order us to march on Paris and you'll see how we will make mince-meat of those b--in the Assembly!'"] [Footnote 1251: With want great interest did any aspiring radical politicians read these lines, whether the German socialist from Hitler learned so much or Lenin during his long stay in Paris around 1906.
Taine maybe thought that he was arming decent men to better understand and defend the republic against a new Jacobin onslaught while, in fact, he provided them with an accurate recipe for repeating the revolution.
(SR).] [Footnote 1252: At.

Matthew, 17:20.

(SR.)] [Footnote 1253: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII 55.

Letter by Brun-Lafond, a grenadier in the national guard, July 14, 1793, to a friend in the provinces, in justification of the 31st of May.

The whole of this letter requires to be read.


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