The local administration recorded them on its lists either because
they lived in another department, and could not obtain the numerous
certificates exacted by the law in proof of residence, or because
those who made up the lists treated these certificates with contempt.
It was found convenient to manufacture an ?migr? in order to
confiscate his possessions legally, and even to guillotine him, not
less legally, as a returned ?migr?. - Message of the Directory to the
"Five Hundred," Vent?se 3, year V.: "According to a rough estimate,
obtained at the Ministry of Finances, the number enrolled on the
general list of ?migres amounts to over one hundred and twenty
thousand; and, again, the lists from some of the departments have not
come in." - Lafayette, "M?moires," vol. II., 181. (Letters to M. de
Maubourg, Oct. 17, 1799 (not?) Oct. 19, 1800.) According to the
report of the Minister of Police, the list of ?migr?s, in nine vols.,
still embraced one hundred and forty-five thousand persons,
notwithstanding that thirteen thousand were struck off by the
Directory, and twelve hundred by the consular government.
[4] Cf. M?moires of Louvet, Dulaure and Vaublanc.
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