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 | | After the massacre of the Champ de Mars[?] (on July 17, 1791) he established himself, in order to be nearer to the Assembly and the Jacobins, in the house of Duplay, a cabinetmaker in the Rue Saint-Honoré, and an ardent admirer of his, where he lived (with but two short intervals) till his death. |
 | | Brissot de Warville, the dme politique of the Girondin party which had been formed in the Legislative Assembly, urged vehemently, that war should be declared against Austria, and the queen was equally urgent, in the hope that a victorious army might restore the old absolutism of the Bourbons. |
 | | Of the other four, Hérault de Séchelles[?] was a professed adherent of Danton, Barère de Vieuzac was an eloquent Provençal, who was ready to be the spokesman to the Convention of any view which the majority of the Committee might adopt; and only Georges Couthon[?] and Saint-Just[?], devoted to Robespierre, adroitly sustained his policy. |
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