Crossword-Solution: CLAVI 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dumont, who sees the first committees at the houses of Brissot and Clavières, goes away with as much anxiety as "disgust." "It is impossible," he says, "to depict the confusion of ideas, the license of the imagination, the burlesque of popular notions.

Roland, Clavières, and Servan not only do not shield the King, but they give him up, and, under their patronage and with their connivance, he is more victimized, more harassed, and more vilified than ever before.

The sentimental cripple in the tribune winds up by demanding that the Twenty-two, the Twelve, and the Ministers, Clavière and Lebrun be placed in arrest.

And yet if I should enumerate divers of his speeches, as I did those of Alexander, they are truly such as Solomon noteth, when he saith, _Verba sapientum tanquam aculei_, _et tanquam clavi in altum defixi_: whereof I will only recite three, not so delectable for elegancy, but admirable for vigour and efficacy.

The members of the new ministry were:--minister of the marine, Lacoste; of finance, Clavière; of justice, Duranton; of war, de Grave, soon afterwards replaced by Servan; of foreign affairs, Dumouriez; of the interior, Roland.