Excerpt from Mémoires sur Divers Événemens de la Révolution Et de l'Émigration, Vol. 2
Les ministres se traînaient dans la sujétion aux constitutionnels, excepté Dumourier qui fort de son génie, était une puissance plus redou table que ses collègues. Ll tarda peu à se pénétrer.
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