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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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The aversion to the Jacobins after June 20, 1792, was general.

"The communes of France, everywhere wearied and dissatisfied with popular clubs, would gladly have got rid of them, that they might no longer be under their control."] [Footnote 1259: The words of Leclerc, a deputy of the Lyons committee in the Jacobin Club at Paris May 12, 1793.

"Popular machiavelianism must be established...

Everything impure must disappear off the French soil...
I shall doubtless be regarded as a brigand, but there is one way to get ahead of calumny, and that is to exterminate the calumniators."] [Footnote 1260: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV.

204 (testimony of Francois Lameyrie).


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