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 | | When we see the Girondins "repudiating law," "refusing to recognise equality as a principle legislation," and "swearing to respect property," we may perhaps think all that a little too abstract in a hundred years' time. |
 | | advanced of the Girondins were too fettered by, their middle-class education to comprehend this right of universal well-being, which implied the right of all to the land and a complete reorganisation, freed from speculation in the distribution of the products necessary for existence. |
 | | The Girondins were generally described by their contemporaries as "a party of refined, subtle, intriguing and, above all, ambitious people," fickle, talkative, combative, but in manner of barristers. |
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