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[ A paper read before a meeting of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives of both political parties, at Washington, April 12th, and before the Union League Club, at New York, April 13th, 1876, and now (1914) revised and extended.]
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[ For proof that the financial situation of France at that time was by no means hopeless, see Storch, "Economie Politique," vol. iv, p. 159.]
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[ See Moniteur, sitting of April 10, 1790.]
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[ Ibid., sitting of April 15, 1790.]
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[ For details of this struggle, see Buchez and Roux, "Histoire Parlementaire de la Révolution Française," vol. iii, pp. 364, 365, 404. For the wild utterances of Marat throughout this whole history, see the full set of his "L'ami du peuple" in the President White Collection of the Cornell University. For Bergasse's pamphlet and a mass of similar publications, see the same collection. For the effect produced by them, see Challamel, "Les Français sous la Révolution"; also De Goncourt, "La Société Française pendant la Révolution," &c.]