[107] His election was not declared till the 7th, but was known on the 6th.
[108] January 20, 1792.
[109] I see in that phrase all Danton’s attitude upon the war.
[110] There was a minority of seven.
[111] Perhaps as early as the evening of the 28th.
[112] This account is translated from the Moniteur, August 3, 1792.
[113] Journal des Débats, 183.
[114] I take this document from Robinet, Danton, Homme d’État, pp. 109, 112; but neither he nor Aulard (who quotes it) gives the authority. The circular is quoted often under the date of August 19; it was issued on that Sunday, but was drawn up and dated on the Saturday to which I have assigned it.
[115] Aulard, who quotes from the Moniteur, xii. 445.
[116] The scene can be reconstructed from his testimony at the trial of the Girondins and from his speech at the Jacobins on the 5th of November.