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[ Ibid., XII. 230 (sessions of April 26 and May 5). Report and speech by François de Nantes. The whole speech, a comic treasure from the beginning to the end, ought to have been quoted: "Tell me, pontiff of Rome, what your sentiments will be when you welcome your worthy and faithful co-operators?.. I behold your sacred hands, ready to launch those pontifical thunderbolts, which, etc... Let the brazier of Scoevola be brought in, and, with our outstretched palms above the burning coals, we will show that there is no species of torture, no torment which can excite a frown on the brow of him whom the love of country exalts above humanity!"—Suppose that, just at this moment, a lighted candle had been placed under his hand!]
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[ Moniteur, XI. 179 (session of Jan. 20, 1792).—Ibid., 216 (session of Jan. 24).—XII. 426 (May 9).]
2213 ([return])
[ Ibid., XII. 479 (session of May 24).—XIII. 71 (session of July 7, speech by Lasource).—Cf. XIV. 301 (session of July 31) a quotation from Voltaire brought in for the suppression of the convents.]
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[ Moniteur. Speech by Aubert Dubayer, session of Aug. 30.]
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[ Speech by Chaumette, procureur of the commune, to the newly married. (Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 408).]