I'm glad everything is coming along so well. Do you know yet whether it's going to be the 13th or the 14th?
By the way, have a Danton speech (he gives rather short ones, relatively speaking, as you'll see):
DANTON On the patrie in danger 2 September 1792
"It is satisfying for the ministers of the free people to be able to announce to you that the patrie is going to be saved. Everything riots, quivers, burns to fight. You know that Verdun is not yet in the power of our enemies. You know that the garrison has promised to immolate the first who proposes to surrender. One part of the people is going to go to the frontiers, another is going to dig entrenchments, and the third will defend the interior of our cities with pikes. Paris is going to second these great efforts. The commissaries of the Commune are going to solemnly proclaim the invitation to citizens to arm themselves and march for the defense of the patrie. It is at this moment, messieurs, that you can declare that the capital is deserving of the praise of all France. It is at this moment that the National Assembly is going to become a real war committee. We ask that you race with us to direct the sublime movement of the people by naming commissaries who will second us in these great measures. We ask that whoever refuses to serve with his person or to hand in his arms will be punished with death. We ask that instructions be given to citizens to direct their movements. We ask that couriers be sent to all the departments to inform them of the decrees you will have rendered. The tocsin which is going to sound is not a signal of alarm; it’s the charge on the enemies of the patrie. To vanquish them, we need audacity, more audacity, always audacity, and France will be saved."
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Date: 2008-07-04 07:40 am (UTC)By the way, have a Danton speech (he gives rather short ones, relatively speaking, as you'll see):
DANTON
On the patrie in danger
2 September 1792
"It is satisfying for the ministers of the free people to be able to announce to you that the patrie is going to be saved. Everything riots, quivers, burns to fight.
You know that Verdun is not yet in the power of our enemies. You know that the garrison has promised to immolate the first who proposes to surrender.
One part of the people is going to go to the frontiers, another is going to dig entrenchments, and the third will defend the interior of our cities with pikes. Paris is going to second these great efforts. The commissaries of the Commune are going to solemnly proclaim the invitation to citizens to arm themselves and march for the defense of the patrie. It is at this moment, messieurs, that you can declare that the capital is deserving of the praise of all France. It is at this moment that the National Assembly is going to become a real war committee. We ask that you race with us to direct the sublime movement of the people by naming commissaries who will second us in these great measures. We ask that whoever refuses to serve with his person or to hand in his arms will be punished with death.
We ask that instructions be given to citizens to direct their movements. We ask that couriers be sent to all the departments to inform them of the decrees you will have rendered. The tocsin which is going to sound is not a signal of alarm; it’s the charge on the enemies of the patrie. To vanquish them, we need audacity, more audacity, always audacity, and France will be saved."