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Never was there such pounding since Thackeray's old Pierre, who, "just to keep up his drumming, one day drummed down the Bastile": At midnight I beat the tattoo, And woke up the Pikemen of Paris To follow the bold Barbaroux. On the waves of this drumming the people poured out from every gate of the garden, until the last loiterer passed and the gendarmes closed the portals for the night.
Measures of the Girondists. Their perilous position. Rumors of invasion. The rabble. Danger of the Girondists. Their demand of the king. Letter to the king. Its character. Refusal of the king. Dismissal of M. Roland. The letter read to the Assembly. Its celebrity. Increasing influence of the Rolands. Barbaroux. Project of a republic. Seconded by Madame Roland. Barbaroux's opinion of the Rolands.
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