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LETTER FROM ARTHUR DILLON, TO CAMILLE DESMOULINS.

             Prison of City Hall, July 8.

Translated by Allison Stoch and Lynnea Wolfe

I do not know, Camille, what you have been told, & the rumors that circulated about my arrest, which is the work of the Comité de Salut public of the National Convention where I have personal enemies. I believe I have appreciated your heart all too well not to be certain that you have taken steps on my behalf. Since I have been imprisoned in a high security jail for eight days now, I imagine that they will have depicted this persecution, to those who are interested in me, as being necessary for the public good, hence the necessity of secrecy in a matter of such great importance. So Camille, I give up on your friendship, on the friendship of those who love me, on the esteem of patriots, if one can prove that I am wrong in the slightest. The only fact that can concern me is that some madman, whom I barely knew, whom I did not see three times in my entire life, had told me one morning of projects as silly as they were extravagant. I silenced him,