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jacquerie. Camille Desmoulins, one of the orators, commonly there, announces it and urges it in precise terms:

      "Now that the animal is in the trap, let him be battered to death … Never will the victors have a richer prey. Forty thousand palaces, mansions, and châteaux, two-fifth of the property of France, will be the recompense of valor. Those who pretend to be the conquerors will be conquered in turn. The nation shall be purged."

      Here, in advance, is the program of the Reign of Terror.

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      Pressure on the Assembly.—Defection of the soldiery.