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7519. REVOLUTION (French), Leaders in.—

I was intimate with the leading characters
of the year 1789. So I was with those of the Brissotine party who succeeded them; and
have always been persuaded that their views
were upright. Those who have followed them
have been less known to me.—
To M. de Meunier. Ford ed., vii, 13.
(M. 1795)