II.,
43. The correspondence of Lindet, which is very interesting, well
shows the sentiments of the Lyonnese and the policy of the "Mountain."
"However agitated Lyons may be, order prevails; nobody wants either
king or tyrant; all use the same language: the words republic, union,
are in everybody's mouth." (Eight letters.) He always gives the same
advice to the Committee of Public Safety: "Publish a constitution,
publish the motives of the bills of arrest," which are indispensable
to rally everybody to the Convention, (June 15).
[65] Guillon de Montl?on, I., 309 (July 24).
[66] Sauzay, IV., 268. - Paul Thibaud, 50. - Marcelin Boudet, 185.
- Archives Nationales AF. II., 46. Extract from the registers of the
Council of the department of Loire-Inferieure, July 14. The
department protests that its decree of July 5 was not "a rupture with
the Convention, an open rebellion against the laws of the State, an
idea very remote from the sentiments and intentions of the citizens
present." Now, "the plan of a Constitution is offered to the
acceptance of the sovereign. This fortunate circumstance should bring
people to one mind, and, with hope thus renewed, let us at once seize
on the means of salvation thus presented to us.
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