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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

) The reading of this
letter calls forth "reiterated applause."
[8] Sauzay, V., 196. (The total is five thousand two hundred. Some
hundreds of names might be added, inasmuch as many of the village
lists are wanting.)
[9] Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 434. (Trial of Fouquier-Tinville,
deposition of Therriet-Grandpr?, one of the heads of the commission on
civil Police and Judicial Administration, 51st witness.)
[10] Report by Saladin, March 4, 1795.
[11] Wallon, "La Terreur," II., 202.
[12] Duchatelier, "Brest Pendant la Terreur," p. 105. - Paris,
"Histoire de Joseph Lebon," II., 370. - "Tableau des Prisons de
Toulouse," by Pescayre, p. 409. - " Recueil de Pi?ces Authentiques
sur la R?volution ? Strasbourg," I., 65. (List of arrests after
Prairial 7, year II.) When the following arrests were made there were
already over three thousand persons confined in Strasbourg." - Alfred
Lallier, "Les Noyades de Nantes," p.90. - Berryat Saint-Prix, p.436.
(Letter of Maignet to Couthon, Avignon, Floreal 4, year II.)
[13] Baulieu, "Essais," V., 283. At the end of December, 1793,
Camille Desmoulins wrote: "Open the prison doors to those two hundred
thousand citizens whom you call 'suspects'!" - The number of prisoners
largely increased during the seven following months.


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