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[ Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 154. Speech of Léonard Bourdon to the Jacobins, May 20.]
34106 ([return])
[ Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 3. Address drawn up by the commissaries of the 48 sections approved of by 35 sections, also by the commune, and presented to the Convention April 15.—Others have preceded it, like pilot ballons.—Ibid., XXV. 319. Petition of the Bon-Conseil, April 8.—XXV. 320. Petition of the section of the Halleau-Blé, April 10.]
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[ Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 83. Speech by Vergniaud to the convention, session of April 20. "These facts are accepted. Nobody can contradict them. More than 10,000 witnesses would confirm them."—There are the same proceedings at Lyons Jan.13, 1792, against the petition far an appeal to the people (Guillon de Montléon, I.145, 155). The official report of the Jacobins claims that the petition obtained 40,215 signatures. "The petition was first signed by about 200 clubbists, who pretended to be the people... They spread the report among the people that all who would not sign the address would be blacklisted or proscribed. That's why they had desks set up in all the public squares, and seized by the arm all who came, and forced them to sign. As this approach did not prove fruitful they made children ten years of age, women, and ignorant rustics put down their name." They were told that the object was to put down the price of bread. "I swear to you that this address is the work a hundred persons at most; the great majority of the citizens of Lyons desire to avail themselves of their own sovereignty in the judgment of Louis." (Letter of David of Lyons to the president of the convention, Jan. 16.)]
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[ "Fragment," by Lanjuinais (in the memoirs of Durand-Maillane, p. 297).]
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[ Meillan, 113.]