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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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The armed force will everywhere respond to the demands made upon it in
the name of the company, or of any individual member composing it." -
Berryat Saint-Prix, p. 42. - Alfred Lallier, " Les Noyades de
Nantes," p.20. (Deposition of Gauthier.) Ibid., p.22. "Damn,"
exclaims Carrier, "I kept that execution for Lamberty. I'm sorry that
it was done by others."
[167] Alfred Lallier, ibid., pp.21 and 90. - Cf. Moniteur, XXII.,
331. (Deposition of Victoire Abraham.) "The drowners made quite free
with the women, even using them for their own purposes when pleased
with them, which women, in token of their kindness, enjoyed the
precious advantage of not being drowned."
[168] Campardon, II., 8. (Deposition of Commeret.) - Berryat Saint-
Prix, p. 42.-Ibid., p.28. Other agents of Carrier, Fouquet and
Lamberty, were condemned specially, "for having saved from national
vengeance Madame de Martilly and her maid . . . They shared the
woman Martilly and the maid between them." In connection with the
"dainty taste" of Jacobins for silk dresses M. Berryat Saint-Prix
cites the following answer of a Jacobin of 1851 to the judge
d'instruction of Rheims; on the objection being made to him that the
Republic, as he understood it, could not last long, he replied:
"Possibly, but say it lasts three months.


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