This distribution explains
why, instead of forty-five thousand revolutionary committees, there
were only twenty-one thousand five hundred.
[60] "Souvenirs des M. Hua," 179. "This country (Coucy-le-Chateau)
protected by its bad roads and still more by its nullity, belonged to
that small number in which the revolutionary turmoil was least felt."
[61] Among other documents of use in composing this picture I must
cite, as first in importance, the five files containing all the
documents referring to the mission of the representative Albert, in
Aisne and Marne. (Vent?se and Germinal, year III.) Nowhere do we find
more precise details of the sentiments of the peasant, of the common
laborer and of the lower bourgeois from 1792 to 1795. (Archives
Nationales, D. §§ 2 to 5.)
[62] Daubari, "La Demagogie en 1793," XII. (The expression of an old
peasant, near Saint-?milion, to M. Vatel engaged in collecting
information on the last days of Petion, Guadet and Buzot.)
[63] Archives Nationales, D. § I., 5. (Petition of Claude Defert,
miller, and national agent of Turgy.) Numbers of mayors, municipal
officers, national agents, administrators and notables of districts
and departments solicit successors, and Albert compels many of them to
remain in office.
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