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| | The French Revolution, Volume 1 By Hippolyte A. Taine - book-1 Chapter 3 |
 | | The King has forbidden all violence; the commanders order the troops not to fire;{34} but the excited and wild animal takes all precautions for insults; in future, it intends to be its own conductor, and, to begin, it treads its guides under foot. |
 | | The multitude, abandoned to the revolutionaries and to itself, continues the same bloody antics, while the municipal chiefs{50} whom it has elected, Bailly, Mayor of Paris, and Lafayette, commandant of the National Guard, are obliged to use cunning, to implore, to throw themselves between the multitude and the unfortunates whom they wish to destroy. |
 | | Montjoie is a party man; but he gives dates and details, and his testimony, when it is confirmed elsewhere, deserves, to be admitted. |
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