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| | Nesta Webster, The French Revolution, ch 6 |
 | | According to Prudhomme the secret councils that preceded the massacres of September took place at the Comité de Surveillance of the Commune,[21] and were attended by Marat, Danton, Manuel, Billaud- Varenne, Collot dHerbois, Panis, Sergent, Tallien, and, on the aforesaid two occasions, Maximilien Robespierre. |
 | | Weber and Maton de la Varenne, though both ardent Royalists, were acquitted, amidst the frantic applause of the populace. |
 | | Moreover, this time it was not merely alcohol that had been given to them, but something more insidious that had been purposely introduced into the drink with which they were plied incessantly. |
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