The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
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FRANCE / REVOLUTION
Our last news from Paris is of the 8th of January. So far it seemed
that your revolution had got along with a steady peace; meeting indeed
occasional difficulties and dangers, but we are not to expect to be
translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed. I have never
feared for the ultimate result, though I have feared for you
personally. Indeed, I hope you will never see such another 5th or 6th
of October.
to Marquis de Lafayette, 2 April 1790
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