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you, now there are twenty-five thousand.’ He offered his
gun, and a neighbor offered a small pistol which he was
willing to sell for seven francs.
Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a
point in Paris nor in France was exempt from it. The artery
was beating everywhere. Like those membranes which arise
from certain inflammations and form in the human body,
the network of secret societies began to spread all over the
country. From the associations of the Friends of the People,
which was at the same time public and secret, sprang the
Society of the Rights of Man, which also dated from one
of the orders of the day: Pluviose, Year 40 of the republi-
can era, which was destined to survive even the mandate of
the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and
which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant
names like the following:—

Pikes.
Tocsin.
Signal cannon.
Phrygian cap.
January 21.
The beggars.
The vagabonds.
Forward march.
Robespierre.
Level.
Ca Ira.

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