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."] [Footnote 2609: Mortimer-Ternaux, I. 245, 246.--II. 81, 131, 148, 170.] [Footnote 2610: The murder of M. Duhamel, sub-lieutenant of the national guard.] [Footnote 2611: Letter of Vergniaud and Guadet to the painter Boze (in the "Memoires de Dumouriez").--Roederer, "Chronique des cinquante jours," 295.--Bertrand de Molleville, "Memoires," III. 29.] [Footnote 2612: Moniteur, XIII. 155 (session of July 16).--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 69. "Favored by you," says Manuel, "all citizens are entitled to visit the first functionary of the nation... The prince's dwelling should be open, like a church. Fear of the people is an insult to the people. If Louis XVI. possessed the soul of a Marcus Aurelius, he would have descended into his gardens and tried to console a hundred thousand beings, on account of the slowness of the Revolution... Never had there been fewer thieves in the Tuileries than on that day; for the courtiers had fled...The red cap was an honor to Louis XVI's head, and ought to be his crown." At this solemn moment the fraternization of the king with the people took place, and "the next day the same king betrayed, calumniated, and disgraced the people!" Manuel's rigmarole surpasses all that can be imagined. "After this there arises in the panelings of the Louvre, at the confluence of the civil list, another channel, which leads through the shades below to Petion's dungeon... The department, in dealing a blow at the municipality, explains how, at the banquet of the Law, it represents the Law in the form of a crocodile, etc."] [Footnote 2613: Moniteur, XIII. 93 (session of July 9);--27 (session of July 2).] [Footnote 2614: Moniteur, XII. 751 (session of June 24); XIII.33 (session of July 3).] [Footnote 2615: Moniteur, XIII. 224 (session of July 23). Two unsworn priests had just been massacred at Bordeaux and their heads carried through the streets on pikes. Ducos adds: "Since the executive power has put its veto on laws repressing fanaticism, popular executions begin to be repeated. If the courts do not render justice, etc."--Ibid., XIII. 301 (session of July 31).] [Footnote 2616: Moniteur, XIII. 72 (session of July 7). The king's speech to the Assembly after the Lamourette kiss. "I confess to you, M. President, that I was very anxious for the deputation to arrive, that I might hasten to the Assembly."] [Footnote 2617: Moniteur, XIII. 313 (session of Aug. 3). The declaration read in the king's name m
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