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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

- The fullest reports are those of Chepy,
at Grenoble, whose correspondence is worthy of publication; although
an ultra Jacobin, he was brought before the revolutionary Tribunal as
a moderate, in Vent?se, year II. Having survived (the Revolution) he
became under the Empire a general commissary of Police at Brest.
Almost all of them are veritable Jacobins, absolutist at bottom, and
they became excellent despotic tools.
[70] Buchez et Roux, XXX., 425. - Twenty-four commissioners, drawn by
lot from the Jacobins of Paris, are associated with Collot d'Herbois.
One of them, Marino, becomes president of the temporary Committee of
Surveillance, at Lyons. Another, Parrien, is made president of the
Revolutionary Committee. - Archives Nationales, AF., II., 59.
(Deliberations in the Paris Jacobin club, appointing three of their
number to go to Tonnerre and request the Committee of Public Safety
"to give them the necessary power, to use it as circumstances may
require, for the best good of the Republic." Frimaire 6, year II.) -
Order of the Committee of Public Safety, allowing two thousand francs
to the said parties for their traveling expenses." - Archives des
Affaires ?trang?res, vol.


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