Volume 3 (of 6) 20/50 "We need not dissimulate; indeed, we are proud to say, that this legislature is composed of persons who are not rich."] [Footnote 2203: Mathieu Dumas, "Memoires," I.521. "The excitement in the electoral assemblages was very great; the aristocrats and large land-owners abstained from coming there."-- Correspondance de Mirabeau et du Comte de la Mark, III. "Nineteen twentieths of this legislature have no other transportation (turn-out) than galoshes and umbrellas. |