The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic: A Tale of The French RevolutionSue, Eugène
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The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic: A Tale of The French Revolution
Sue, Eugène
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
JUNE 6, 1793.--A singular chance placed in my hands to-day a note
written by Robespierre. I hastened to take a copy, as it was of the
greatest interest. It sums up in a few firm and concise lines the policy
which he purposes henceforth to impress upon the Jacobin party, which,
since the 31st of May, is master of power:
There must be one will.
It must be Republican.
In order that it may be Republican, there must be Republican
ministers, Republican journals, Republican deputies, a Republican
government. The Republic can not establish itself save with honest
and Republican officials.
The foreign war is a deadly scourge so long as the body politic is
suffering from the convulsions of revolution, and from divided
counsels. The present insurrection must be sustained until the
proper measures be taken to save the Republic. The people must
rally to the Convention, and the Convention must serve the will of
the people. The insurrection must extend further and further, on
the same plan; the sans-culottes must be paid and remain in the
cities. They must be furnished with arms, encouraged, and
enlightened.
JUNE 7, 1793.--I received this day a letter from Victoria, in fulfilment
of her promise to write me each week. Not to mention the profound grief
her absence caused us, our uneasiness over her was extreme, in spite of
the assurances she gave us in her farewell letter. She now informed me
that Oliver's health was improving, and that his spirits were returning.
She did not despair of bringing him back to reason and the practice of
his civic duties. She was living, she told me, at some distance from the
capital; and she could not yet disclose to us the mainsprings of her
mysterious conduct, and the reticence of her correspondence.
JUNE 10, 1793.--The majority of the Convention has just made recognition
of the value of the passive insurrection of May 31, by adopting the
appended resolution:
The National Convention declares that in the days of May 31 to June
4 the general revolutionary council of the Commune and the people
of Paris powerfully co-operated to save the liberty, the unity and
the indivisibility of the Republic.
JULY 12, 1793.--Upon a report from the committee rendered by St. Just,
the Girondin members of the Convention were on the 10th of July declared
traitors to the country, and outlawed. Several other adherents of that
party were sent before the revolutionary tribunal.
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