par cela même, /or that very reason

3. pris dans son sein, taken from its midst; i.e. from its own members.

4. Barnave was an able and éloquent member of the Girondist party. He perished on the scaffold in 1793. Pétion, mayor of Paris, was also a Girondist. He committed suicide in 1793 in order to escape the guillotine. Latour-Maubourg, although a nobleman by birth, acted with the deputies of the third estate. He died in 1831.