The things we do!

"It is from the four patriotic skulls of the hydra that the ink of
proscription will he taken for the enemies of the Constitution.
This inkstand, cut out of the first stone that fell in the
demolition of Fort Saint-Nicolas, is dedicated to the patriotic
Assembly of Marseilles. The magic art of the hero of the liberty of
Marseilles, that Renaud who, under the mask of devotion, surprised
the watchful sentinel of Notre-Dame de la Garde, and whose manly
courage and cunning ensured the conquest of that key of the great
focus of counter-revolution, has just given birth to a new trait of
genius a new Deucalion, he personifies this stone which Liberty has
flung from the summit of our menacing Bastilles, etc."
[36] "Archives Nationales," F7. 3198. Letters of the royal
commissioners, April 13 and 5, 1791.
[37] De S?gur, "Memoires," III, 482 (early in 1790).
[38] De Dampmartin, I. 184 (January, 1791).
[39] "Archives Nationales," KK, 1105. Correspondence of M. de
Thiard (October 12, 1789).


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