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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

(See reports of prefets on the effect of
this law, on the ruin of the hospitals, on the misery of the sick, of
foundlings and the infirm, from years IX. to XIII.) - Decrees of
August 8 and 12, 1793, and July 24, 1794, on academies and literary
societies. - Decree of August 24, 1793, ยง 29, on the assets and
liabilities of communes.
[32] Schmidt, I., 144. (Two billions September 27, 1793; one billion
four hundred millions June 19, 1794.) - Decree of August 24, September
13, 1793, on the conversion of title-deeds and the formation of the
Grand Ledger. - Decrees of July 31, August 30 and September 5, on
calling in the assignats ? face royale. - Decrees of August 1 and
September 5, 1793, on the refusal to accept assignats at par.
[33] Archives Nationales, F.7, 4421. (Documents on the revolutionary
taxes organized at Troyes, Brumaire 11, year II.) Three hundred and
seventy-three persons are taxed, especially manufacturers, merchants
and land-owners; the minimum of the tax is one hundred francs, the
maximum fifty thousand francs, the total being one million seven
hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred francs. Seventy-six
petitions attached to the papers show exactly the situation of things
in relation to trade, manufactures and property, the state of fortunes
and credit of the upper and lower bourgeois class.


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