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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

The decree provoked by a petition of Jacobins, is passed on
motion of Osselin, aggravated by Robespierre.
[109] Louvet, "M?moires," 321. (List of the Girondists who perished
or who were proscribed. Twenty-four fugitives survived.)
[110] Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 395, 416, 435. The terror and disgust
of the majority is seen in the small number of voters. Their
abstention from voting is the more significant in relation to the
election of the dictators. The members of the Committee of Public
Safety, elected on the 16th of July, obtain from one hundred to one
hundred and ninety-two votes. The members of the Committee of
Security obtain from twenty-two to one hundred and thirteen votes.
The members of the same committee, renewed on the 11th of September,
obtain from fifty-two to one hundred and eight votes. The judges of
the revolutionary tribunal, completed on the 3rd of August, obtain
from forty-seven to sixty-five votes. - Meillan, 85. (In relation to
the institution of the revolutionary government, on motion of Bazire,
Aug. 28). "Sixty or eighty deputies passed this decree. . . it
was preceded by another passed by a plurality of thirty against ten.


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