Volume 3 (of 6) 51/70 147, 149 (session of Jan.17); X.759 (session of Dec. 28) .-- Already, on the 10th of December, he had declared at the Jacobin club: "A people that has conquered its freedom, after ten centuries of slavery, needs war. War is essential to it for its consolidation." (Buchez et Roux, XII. 410) .-- On the 17th of January, in the tribune, he again repeats: "I have only one fear, and that is, that we may not have war."] [Footnote 2356: Moniteur, XI. |