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... President of the Cordeliers - Championship of Marat - The Châtelet -The Bastille - The March to Versailles - First Mention in the Moniteur - Charges of Orleanism , of Royalism - Testimony of the Cordeliers . 21 CHAPTER IV 1790 ...
... President of the Cordeliers - Championship of Marat - The Châtelet -The Bastille - The March to Versailles - First Mention in the Moniteur - Charges of Orleanism , of Royalism - Testimony of the Cordeliers . 21 CHAPTER IV 1790 ...
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... President of a Law Court . ' ' Buffon's Natural History ' became so familiar to him that he could say whole pages by heart . Corneille was his favourite poet , and he also read Tasso , Ariosto , ( ATTAINMENTS 7 and Dante . He even wrote ...
... President of a Law Court . ' ' Buffon's Natural History ' became so familiar to him that he could say whole pages by heart . Corneille was his favourite poet , and he also read Tasso , Ariosto , ( ATTAINMENTS 7 and Dante . He even wrote ...
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... a heart which naturally rebelled against tyranny . This was why it was inevitable that , being in Paris , he should embark on a political career . 117 21 : CHAPTER III 1789 PRESIDENT OF THE CORDELIERS 20 LIFE OF DANTON.
... a heart which naturally rebelled against tyranny . This was why it was inevitable that , being in Paris , he should embark on a political career . 117 21 : CHAPTER III 1789 PRESIDENT OF THE CORDELIERS 20 LIFE OF DANTON.
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... president in the spring of 1789. That year might have been christened the Year of Newspapers if other things had not made it even more memorable . The liberty of the press had been decreed in August , and journal after journal sprang ...
... president in the spring of 1789. That year might have been christened the Year of Newspapers if other things had not made it even more memorable . The liberty of the press had been decreed in August , and journal after journal sprang ...
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... president was the arch - fiend who scat- tered and watered the tares . Equally significant is his judgment that the first act in the demagogic drama was Danton's championship of Marat in the winter of 1789-90 . The first warrant for ...
... president was the arch - fiend who scat- tered and watered the tares . Equally significant is his judgment that the first act in the demagogic drama was Danton's championship of Marat in the winter of 1789-90 . The first warrant for ...
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