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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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[37] Dauban, ibid., 171, (report of Vent?se 17), and 243, (report of
Vent?se 25), on the civil-committees and revolutionary committees, who
order meat served to them before serving it to the sick, and who
likewise serve the good friends of their wives.? Ibid., 146. (Report
of Vent?se 10.). . . Archives Nationales F.7, 2475. (Register of
the deliberations of the revolutionary committee of the Piques
sections, Brumaire 27, year II.) "The Committee orders that the two-
horse cab belonging to Lemarche be henceforth at the service of the
section and of the Committee when measures of security are concerned."
In this register, and others of the same series, we clearly see the
inside of a committee and its vast despotism. Style and orthography,
with almost all, are of the same low order.
[38] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol. 1411. (Report of Aug.21
and 22, 1793.) "General Henriot sent me several . . . . who made
use of the authority of the Committee of Public Safety and General
Security, as well as of that which he delegated to me, to make
domiciliary visits at the houses of individuals who were not assured
patriots; but that did not warrant their receiving money and even
abstracting it.


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