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It is not very surprising that the texts of most of Robespierre’s speeches are available only from contemporary newspaper reports, or that they present variations and the occasional garbled passage. The men running revolutionary France, not just new to the job but trying to transform the way the job was done while learning how to do it, worked punishingly long hours. The situation, in the country and in the shifting new political institutions, changed by the day and often by the hour.