But while the Poles were happy with their leader, the French revolutionaries were angry that Kosciuszko had prosecuted the Jacobins who built gallows and hanged traitors. The French viewed the Warsaw hangings as a positive development. The Polish emissary in Paris, Barss, was given a statement that read: “The French government will not grant a single piece of gold, will not send a single soldier, to support a revolution which would aim at retaining aristocratic or royal governments in which using the term ‘revolution’ would lead only to a change in government that would not be based on the
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