The matter of revolutionary hospitality toward foreigners had hardly yet been definitively decided, however. Only two weeks after the promulgation of the département du Nord decree, the philosopher Condorcet delivered himself of an eloquent speech insisting that France would never give itself over to a narrow-minded nationalism, even in time of war: The asylum that [France] opens to foreigners will never be closed to the inhabitants of countries whose princes have forced us to attack them, and they will find in its womb a secure refuge. Faithful to the commitments made in its name, [France]
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