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Excerpt from The History of the French Revolution by M. A. Thiers, Late Prime Minister of France, Vol. 3 of 4: Translated With Notes and Illustrations From the Most Authentic Sources
Herault-sechelles, and had not suffered Prieur of La Marne and Jean Bon St. Andre to be continually absent on missions, they would have been more certain of having a majority, and not have hesitated so long about attacking the triumvirs. He then asserted that men became wearied out by power, and contracted dangerous tastes from the possession of it. He proposed, in consequence, to decree that thenceforward no member of the committees should be authorized to go on mission, and that one-fourth of the members of each com mittee should be renewed every month. Cambon, carrying the discussion still farther, said that the entire government ought to be reorganized. The committee of public welfare had, in his Opinion, usurped everything; the consequence was that its members, were they even to labour night and day, could not perform their task, and that the committees of finance, of legislation, and of general safety were reduced to mere ciphers. It was necessary to make a new distribution of powers, so as to prevent the committee of public welfare from being over loaded, and the others from being annulled.
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