to XIII. - These branches
of the service were almost entirely overthrown; the reader will see
the practical results of their suppression in the documents referred
to.
[2] "St. John de Cr?vec?ur," by Robert de Cr?vec?ur, p.216. (Letter
of Mdlle. de Gouves, July, 1800.) "We are negotiating for the payment
of, at least, the arrearages since 1789 on the Arras property." (M.
de Gouves and his sisters had not emigrated, and yet they had had no
income from their property for ten years.)
[3] Cf. "The Revolution," vol. I., 254-261, 311-352; vol. II., 234-
272.
[4] Cf. "The Revolution," II., 273-276.
[5] Buchez et Roux, XXII., 178. (Speech by Robespierre in the
Convention, December 2, 1792.) - Mallet-Dupan, "M?moires." I., 400.
About the same date, "a deputation from the department of Gard
expressly demands a sum of two hundred and fifty millions, as
indemnity to the cultivator, for grain which it calls national
property." - This fearful sum of two hundred and fifty millions, they
add, is only a fictive advance, placing at its disposal real and
purely national wealth, not belonging in full ownership to any
distinct member of the social body any more than the pernicious metals
minted as current coin.
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