. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . From an engraving by Levachcz. tk^ ^^n,^> ^:L. Designed and engraved by Duplessis Berteaux. DANTON. [To face page 166. LOUVET Vergniaud, Guadet, Gensonne, Louvet, Barbaroux,Buzot, and other Girondists. Instead of punishingthis outrage as an act of rebellion against thesovereignty of the people, the Convention, by anill-advised and untimely application of the principlesof individual liberty, and a squeamish regard for therights of persons, permitted the evil, and took nomeasures to arrest its progress, until it had acquiredsuch strength as made ever
. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . From an engraving by Levachcz. tk^ ^^n,^> ^:L. Designed and engraved by Duplessis Berteaux. DANTON. [To face page 166. LOUVET Vergniaud, Guadet, Gensonne, Louvet, Barbaroux,Buzot, and other Girondists. Instead of punishingthis outrage as an act of rebellion against thesovereignty of the people, the Convention, by anill-advised and untimely application of the principlesof individual liberty, and a squeamish regard for therights of persons, permitted the evil, and took nomeasures to arrest its progress, until it had acquiredsuch strength as made every effort against it in-effectual. Amid the applause of the tribunes andthe extreme left, the petitioners were awarded thehonours of the sitting. Such was the first attackmade from without upon the Girondists in their lastrefuge, the bosom of the Convention. This success was immediately followed up byRobespierre. A powerful faction, said he, is conspiringwith the tyrants of Europe to give us a king and anaristocratic constitution ; it hopes to attain its shame-ful desire by force of forei
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