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== President of the National Convention (May 1793) == He was elected President of the Convention on 16 May 1793. Isnard was presiding at the Convention when a deputation of the commune of Paris came to demand that [[Jacques René Hébert]] should be set at liberty, and he made the famous reply: "If by these insurrections, continually renewed, it should happen that the principle of national representation should suffer, I declare to you in the name of France that soon people will search the banks of the Seine to see if Paris has ever existed"<ref>"Si jamais la Convention était avilie, si jamais par une de ces insurrections qui depuis le 10 mars se renouvellent sans cesse, et dont les magistrats n'ont jamais averti la Convention [...] Si par ces insurrections toujours renaissantes il arrivait qu'on portât atteinte à la représentation nationale, je vous le déclare, au nom de la France entière, Paris serait anéanti... "''. He said also : ''« Bientôt, on chercherait sur les rives de la [[Seine]] la place où cette ville aurait existé »''.</ref>
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