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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

, III. Order of the representative
Ferry; Bourges, 23 Messidor, year II. - Ibid., AF. II., 106. Order
of the representative Dartigoyte, Auch, Prairial 18, year II.
[16] Decree of Brumaire 11, year II., article 7.
[17] Gouvion Saint Cyr, "M?moires sur les campagnes de 1792 ? la paix
de Campo-Formio," I., 91-109: "Promotion, which every one feared at
this time." . . . Ibid. 229. "Men who had any resources
obstinately held aloof from any kind of advancement." Archives
Nationales, DS. I, 5. (Mission of representative Albert in L'Aube
and La Marne, and especially the order issued by Albert, Chalons,
Germinal 7, year III., with the numerous petitions of judges and town
officers soliciting their removal. - Letter of the painter Gosse
(published in Le Temps, May 31, 1872), which is very curious, showing
the trials of those in private life during the Revolution: "My father
was appointed charity commissioner and quartermaster for the troops;
at the time of the Reign of Terror it would have been imprudent to
have refused any office" - Archives Nationales, F7, 3485. The case of
Girard Toussaint, notary at Paris, who "fell under the sword of the
law, Thermidor 9, year II.


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