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The days of the Directoire (1910)

Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard), Abbott, John Colby · London, John Lane · leaf 459

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something decisive if their action was not to beanticipated by others. Finally, by dint of muchpersuasion, his advisers won Sieyes consent to aunion with the General. But he only gave wayreluctantly, clearly foreseeing that Bonaparte wasonly availing himself of his co-operation for themoment, and… … J_l» S ¥. F Itl ,11^ IVI[ M A N II1 Duplessi-Bertaux, del. ^S IIEYES, Levachet, sailp. BONAPARTES PURGE 347 workers and leave them behind his back, just asI do now —and suiting the action to the word, hestepped roughly between his two interlocutors, andpushed them behind him.^ This accomplished,…

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