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ANECDOTES

OF THE

FOUNDER.S

OF THE

FRENCH REPUBLIC,

AND OF OTHER

EMINENT CHARACTERS,

WHO HAVE DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES

DURING THE PROGRESS OF

THE REVOLUTION.

A New Edition, with Corredions and Additions.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING 114 CHARACTERS.

LONDON;

PRINTED FOR R. PHILLIPS, No. 71, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD.

SOLD BY T. HURST, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND
J. DEBRETT, PICCADILLY,

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PREFACE

TO

THE NEW EDITION.

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Very large. Impreffion of the First Edi tion of this Volume was fold in the course of a few months. Tranflations of it have appeared on the Continent, in feveral different languages, and it has been reprinted in Ireland and America.

Stimulated and flattered by fo many unequivocal teftimonies of approbation, the Proprietor was induced to extend his plan to a SECOND VOLUME; the favourable reception of which has scarcely been exceeded by that of the former.

In complying with the wifhes of the Public, expreffed by a conftant demand for a NEW EDITION, neither labour nor expence has been spared to render it at once correct and complete. The articles have in general been continued down to the present time; and fo numerous indeed have been the corrections, amendments and alterations, throughout the Volume, that the New Edition affumes,

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