Mignet quote is a mild version of Hanriot's reply. Historian David Bell in his review "When Terror Was Young" of David Andress' book "The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France" gives a harsher version of the same reply: "Tell your fucking president that he and his Assembly are fucked, and that if within one hour he doesn't deliver to me the Twenty-two I'm going to blast it to the ground". In his view (David Bell's) " such were the words, uttered by the sans-culotte commander Hanriot, cannon literally in hand, by which France's fledgling democracy died" and even the very language underlines it. For François Furet it was "the confrontation between national representation and direct democracy personified in brute force of the poorer classes and their guns".[44]
Pertué Michel. Remarques sur les listes de Conventionnels. In: Annales historiques de la Révolution française, n°245, 1981. pp. 366-378. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/ahrf.1981.4253
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Mignet quote is a mild version of Hanriot's reply. Historian David Bell in his review "When Terror Was Young" of David Andress' book "The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France" gives a harsher version of the same reply: "Tell your fucking president that he and his Assembly are fucked, and that if within one hour he doesn't deliver to me the Twenty-two I'm going to blast it to the ground". In his view (David Bell's) " such were the words, uttered by the sans-culotte commander Hanriot, cannon literally in hand, by which France's fledgling democracy died" and even the very language underlines it. For François Furet it was "the confrontation between national representation and direct democracy personified in brute force of the poorer classes and their guns".[44]
