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Loustalot, Camille Desmoulins, Fréron, Danton, Marat, Pétion, Robespierre proclaim it untiringly in the political clubs, in the newspapers, and in the assembly.

It encroaches on our imprescriptible rights in refusing to let a district revoke at will the five members elected to represent it at the Hôtel-de-Ville, in passing ordinances without obtaining the approval of voters, in preventing citizens from assembling where they please, in interrupting the out-door meetings of the clubs in the Palais Royal where "Patriots are driven away be the patrol.

Henceforth political fancies swarm in the district meetings, in the clubs, in the newspapers, in pamphlets, and in every head-long, venturesome brain.

It declares itself at the outset in the harangues of the clubs and in the petitions to the Constituent Assembly.

On the fall of the throne, and at the panic caused by the Prussian invasion, during a period of anarchy which equaled that of July, 1789, there were, according to Roederer, almost as many clubs as there were communes, 26,000, one for every village containing five or six hot-headed, boisterous fellows, or roughs, (tape-durs), with a clerk able to pen a petition.

In may of the large cities, in Paris, Lyons, Aix and Bordeaux, there are two clubs in partnership,[23] one, more or less respectable and parliamentary, "composed partly of the members of the different branches of the administration and specially devoted to purposes of general utility," and the other, practical and active, made up of bar room politicians and club-haranguers, who indoctrinate workmen, market-gardeners and the rest of the lower bourgeois class.

It publishes, accordingly, a list of all clubs conspicuously in its journal, together with their denunciations.

A circular was issued, after which an article on the measure was printed in their journal and discussed in three or four hundred clubs that were leagued together.

In the department of Gard, their clubs are all broken up, by order of the department, because "they are centers of malevolence.

Sent to Paris as deputies, through the choice or toleration of the clubs, they bear along with them their politics and their rhetoric.

V: "The Jacobin party, having branches all over the country, used its provincial clubs to control the elections.

He shows how, around the central factory and its twelve hundred branches of insurrection, the twelve hundred affiliated clubs, which, "holding each other's hands, form a sort of electric chain around all France" and giving it a shock at every touch from the center.

It would have decided for the magistrates against the clubs, for the police against rioters, for the king against the mob.

That which reached them was uninfluenced, whilst the opinions of clubs, taverns, and street-corners gained enormous power, the time being at hand when there was to be no other power.

Saturnin, Gouls and Lacoste, with a thousand women and children armed with clubs and scythes, arrive one morning before the town.