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Barnave, to my own knowledge, has declared that the influence of assemblies in the future should be limited to a council of notables, and that all power should be in the government"] [Footnote 2111: Ibid.
Letter of July 17, 1791.
"All the members of the Assembly, with the exception of three or four, have passed a resolution to separate from the Jacobins; they number about 300."-- The seven deputies who remain at the Jacobin Club, are Robespierre, Petion, Gregoire, Buzot, Coroller, and Abbe Royer.] [Footnote 2112: "Les Feuillants" Was a political club consisting of constitutional monarchists who held their meetings in the former Feuillants monastery in Paris from 1791 to 1792.
(SR).] [Footnote 2113: Decree of Sept 29, 30, 1791, with report and instructions of the Committee on the Constitution.] [Footnote 2114: Decree of May 17, 1791 .-- Malouet, XII.161.
"There was nothing left to us but to make one great mistake, which we did not fail to do."] [Footnote 2115: A few months after this, on the election of a mayor for Paris, the court voted against Lafayette, and for Petion] [Footnote 2116: M.de Montlosier, "Memoires," II.309.
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