Vulgar words in France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 (Page 1)
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We shall do this to satisfy the blockheads who are a noun of multitude.
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The testimony of all impartial contemporary observers accords with the deliberate opinion given by Gouverneur Morris to Alexander Hamilton in 1796, that the French people in general were royalists at heart, and utterly averse to the general overthrow of their institutions by the legislative mob at Paris, or, as Mirabeau comprehensively called them, 'that Wild Ass of the National Assembly.'