This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... a term to his dictatorship, without violence and without a coup-d'etat, and, replying to the secret inclinations of the Convention, he wished to propose that it should decree "that the institutions which will immediately be outlined will present a means by which the Government, without losing anything ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... a term to his dictatorship, without violence and without a coup-d'etat, and, replying to the secret inclinations of the Convention, he wished to propose that it should decree "that the institutions which will immediately be outlined will present a means by which the Government, without losing anything of its revolutionary force, cannot tend to become despotic, to favour ambition, or to oppress or usurp the national representation." If Saint-Just had been able to speak to the end, it is probable that the situation would have been pacifically resolved; Robespierre would no longer have been dictator, and the Thermidorian reaction would perhaps have been avoided. But Tallien interrupted Saint-Just, to demand "that the veil should be rent." The Convention declared itself permanent. Billaud-Varenne denounced the insurrection of the Jacobins. He censured the decree of the 22nd of Prairial; not as being unjust, but as favouring Robespierre's ambition; whom he accused of having formerly shielded Danton. Robespierre sprang to the tribune. Collot d'Herbois, who presided, refused him speech. There were cries of " Down with the tyrant! " Tallien, brandishing a dagger, appealed to the Right, as Billaud had appealed to the Left, denouncing the barbarity of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and describing Robespierre as "a Catiline surrounded by new Veruses." The Convention decreed the arrest of Hanriot and his staff. Robespierre again flung himself upon the tribune. Cries of " Down with the tyrant! " forced him again to descend. Barere, in the name of the Committee, proposed some insignificant measures, and seemed uncertain of the success of the struggle. Vadier followed him, ...
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