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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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Hamel, III., 43, 71 .-- (The following important document is on file in the Archives Nationales, F 7, 4446, and consists of two notes written by Robespierre in June and July, 1793): "Who are our enemies?
The vicious and the rich....

How may the civil war be stopped?
Punish traitors and conspirators, especially guilty deputies and administrators....
make terrible examples....

proscribe perfidious writers and anti-revolutionaries....

Internal danger comes from the bourgeois; to overcome the bourgeois, rally the people.

The present insurrection must be kept up....


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