"I hoped that his selection of Rousseau for a model of style and the constant reading of his works would exert some good influence on his character."] [Footnote 31103: Fievee, "correspondance" (introduction).

Fievee, who heard him at the Jacobin Club, said that he resembled a "tailor of the ancient regime." La Reeveillere-Lepeaux, '"Memoires."-- Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 94 .-- Malouet, "Memoires," II., 135.

(Session of May 31, 1791, after the delivery of Abbe Raynal's address.) "This is the first and only time I found Robespierre clear and even eloquent....

He spun out his opening phrases as usual, which contained the spirit of his discourse, and which, in spite of his accustomed rigmarole, produced the effect he intended."] [Footnote 31104: Courrier de Provence, III., No.

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