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[55] Bar?re, "M?moires," II., 324.
[56] Montieur, XXII., 742. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6, year II.)
??Ibid., 22. - Report by Lindet, September 20, 1794): " The land and
navy forces, war and other services, deprive agricultural pursuits and
other professions of more than one million five hundred thousand
citizens. It would cost the Republic less to support six million men
in all the communes." - "Le Departement des Affaires ?trang?res," by
Fr. Masson, 382. (According to "Paris ? la fin du dix-huitieme
siecle," by Pujoulx, year IX.): "At Paris alone there are more than
thirty thousand (government) clerks; six thousand at the most do the
necessary writing; the rest cut away quills, consume ink and blacken
paper. In old times, there were too many clerks in the bureaux
relatively to the work; now, there are three times as many, and there
are some who think that there are not enough."
[57] "Souvenirs de M. Hua," a parliamentary advocate, p.96. (A very
accurate picture of the small town Coucy-le-Chateau, in Aisne, from
1792 to 1794.) - "Archives des Affaires ?trang?res," vol.334. (Letter
of the agents, Thionville, Vent?se 24, year II.) The district of
Thionville is very patriotic, submits to the maximum and requisitions,
but not to the laws prohibiting outside worship and religious
assemblies.
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