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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

- Archives Nationales,
AF. II., 44. The representatives on mission wanted to do the same
thing with Marseilles. (Orders of Fr?ron, Barras, Salicetti, and
Ricard, Niv?se 17, year II.) "The name of Marseilles, still borne by
this criminal city, shall be changed. The National Convention shall
be requested to give it another name. Meanwhile it shall remain
nameless and be thus known." In effect, in several subsequent
documents, Marseilles is called the nameless commune.
[103] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 204. (Session of June 24: "Strong
expressions of dissent are heard on the right." Legendre, "I demand
that the first rebel, the first man there (pointing to the "Right"
party) who interrupts the speaker, be sent to the Abbaye." Couhey,
indeed, was sent to the Abbaye for applauding a Federalist speech. -
Cf. on these three months. - Mortimer-Ternaux, vol. VIII.
[104] Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 175. - Dauban: "La D?magogie ? Paris en
1793," 436 (Narrative by Dulaure, an eye-witness).
[105] There were really only twenty-two brought before the
revolutionary tribunal.
[106] Dauban, XXVI., p. 440. (Narrative of Blanqui, one of the
seventy-three.)
[107] Buchez et Roux.


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