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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

'Very well,' replied
Dartigoyte emissary, 'I appeal to a gendarme,' and he at once ordered
his arrest."
[73] Lallier, "Une commission D'?nquete et de Propagande," p.7. (It
is composed of twelve members, selected by the club of Nantes, who
overrun the district of Ancenis, six thousand francs of fees being
allowed it.) - Babeau, II., 280. (Dispatch of sixty commissioners,
each at six francs a day by the Troyes administration, to ascertain
the state of the supplies on hand, Prairial, year II.)
[74] For example, at Bordeaux and at Troyes. - Archives Nationales
F7, 4421. Register of the Revolutionary committee of Troyes, fol.
164. Two members of the committee travel to the commune of Lusigny,
dismiss the mayor and justice, and appoint in the place of the latter
"the former cur? of the country, who, some time ago, abjured
sacerdotal fanaticism." - Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol.332.
(Letter of Desgranges, Bordeaux, Brumaire 15, year II.) The
representatives have just instituted "a revolutionary committee of
surveillance composed of twelve members, selected with the greatest
circumspection. All the committees established in the department are
obliged to correspond with it, and fulfill its requisitions.


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