- (Joint letter of the entire municipality of
Landreville; letter of Charles, stone-cutter, mayor of Trannes; Claude
Defert, miller, national agent of Turgy; of Elegny, meat-dealer; of a
wine-grower; municipal official at Merrex, etc.) The latter writes:
"The Republic is great and generous; it does not desire that its
children should ruin themselves in attending to its affairs; on the
contrary, its object is to give salaried (emolumentaires) places to
those who have nothing to live on. - Another, Mageure, appointed
mayor of Bar-sur-Seine writes, Pluvi?se 29, year III.: "I learned
yesterday that some persons of this community would like to procure
for me the insidious gift of the mayoralty," and he begs Albert to
turn aside this cup.
[64] "Souvenirs de M. Hua," 178-205. "M. P... , mayor of Cr?py-au-
Mont, knew how to restrain some low fellows who would have been only
too glad to revolutionize his village. . . . And yet he was a
republican. . . . One day, speaking of the revolutionary system,
he said: 'They always say that it will not hold on; meanwhile, it
sticks like lice.' " - "A general assembly of the inhabitants of Coucy
and its outskirts was held, in which everybody was obliged to undergo
an examination, stating his name, residence, birth-place, present
occupation, and what he had done during the Revolution.
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