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[46] Decrees of August 14 and 16.
[47] Moniteur, XVII., 375.
[48] Riouffe, "M?moires," 19: "An entire generation, the real
disciples of Jean-Jacques, Voltaire and Diderot, could be, and was
annihilated, to a large extent under the pretext of federalism."
[49] Moniteur, XVII., 102. (Speech by Cambon, July 11, 1793).
Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. (Speech of General Wimpffen to the
"Soci?t? des amis de la Libert? et de l'Egalit?," in session at
Cherbourg, June 25, 1793). "Sixty-four departments have already
revoked the powers conferred on their representatives." Meillan,
"M?moires," 72: "The archives of Bordeaux once contained the acts
passed by seventy-two departments, all of which adhered to measures
nearly the same as those indicted in our documents."
[50] Buchez et Roux, XVIII., 148. -- Meillan, 70, 71. -- Guillon de
Montl?on, I., 300 (on Lyons) and I., 280 (on Bordeaux). Archives
Nationales, AF II., 46. (Deliberations of the Nantes section July 5).
-- Letter of Merlin and Gillet, representatives on mission, Lorient,
June 12. Dissatisfaction at the outrages of May 31 and June 2, was so
manifest that the representatives on mission Merline, Gillet,
Savestre, and Cagaignac print on the 14th of June a resolution
authorising one of their body to go to the Convention and protest "in
their name" against the weakness shown by it and against the
ursurpations of the Paris commune.
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