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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

All bankers, commission merchants, and
other persons, are forbidden to form any establishment of this order
under any pretext or under any denomination."
[89] " Memoires de Carnot," I., 278 (Report by Carnot). "That is not
family life. If there are local privileges there will soon be
individual privileges and local aristocracy will bring along in its
train the aristocracy of inhabitants."
[90] Moniteur, XIX., 683 (Rapport by Bar?re, Vent?se 21, year II). --
This report should be read in full to comprehend the communistic and
centralizing spirit of the Jacobins. (Undoubtedly Lenin, during his
years in Paris, had read Taine's footnote and asked the national
library for a copy of this rapport. SR.)
[91] Fenet, "Travaux du Code civil," 105 (Rapports by Cambac?r?s,
August 9, 1793 and September 9, 1794). - Decrees of September 20,
1793 and Flor?al 4, year II (On divorce). - Cf. "Institutions," by
Saint-Just (Buchez et Roux, XXXV, 302). "A man and woman who love
each other are married; if they have no children they may keep their
relationship secret."
[92] This article of the Jacobin program, like the others, has its
practical result. - "At Paris, in the twenty-seven months after the
promulgation of the law of September, 1792, the courts granted five
thousand nine hundred and ninety-four divorces, and in year VI, the
number of divorces exceeded the marriages.


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