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[6] Buchez et Roux, XXVI., 95. (Declaration of Rights presented in
the Jacobin Club, April 21, 1793.)
[7] Decrees in every commune establishing a tax on the rich in order
to render the price of bread proportionate to wages, also in each
large city to raise an army of paid sans-culottes, that will keep
aristocrats under their pikes, April 5-7. - Decree ordering the
forced loan of a billion on the rich, May 20-25- - Buchez et Roux,
XXV., 156. (Speech by Charles, March 27. - Gorsas, "Courrier des
D?partements," No. for May I5, 1793. (Speech by Simon in the club at
Annecy.) - Speech by Guffroy at Chartres, and of Chalier and
associates at Lyons, etc.
[8] Report by Minister Clavi?res, February 1, 1793, p. 27. - Cf.
Report of M. de Montesquiou, September 9, 1791, p. 47. "During the
first twenty-six months of the Revolution the taxes brought in three
hundred and fifty-six millions less than they should naturally have
done." - There is the same deficit in the receipts of the towns,
especially on account of the abolition of the octroi. Paris, under
this head, loses ten millions per annum.
[9] Report by Cambon, Pluvi?se 3, year III. "The Revolution and the
war have cost in four years five thousand three hundred and fifty
millions above the ordinary expenses.
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