The Abbé Sieyès; An Essay in the Politics of the French Revolution
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This is as one would expect, for there must be unofficial relations between an executive government outside parliament and the parliamentary leaders.^ Next year he is reported at the Club de Salm, otherwise called the Constitutional Circle, a meeting-place of central republicans and culti- vated believers in the Revolution with a dash of the salon. Madame de Stael was to be found there and Benjamin Constant. There, too, Talleyrand limped about after his ' Moniieur, December, 1795. 2 Mallet, Cor...respondance, II., 24. Barante, Memoirs, I., 379. A report sent to England through Lord Malmesbury in May, 1796, Foreign Office, France, 46. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF SIEYfeS. 193 exile and looked for a way into office."^ These people were hardly a party, and Siey^s too was detached ; but he was being driven by circumstances in the course of this year over to the side of the Directory, and he took his part in its shame. In 1796 the conspiracy of Baboeuf had called up the spectre of the Red Terror. Baboeuf s crude socialism was founded on deductions from the constitutional formulas of 1793, and his allies were old Jacobins and Terrorists.
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