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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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[59] Archives Nationales, AF., II , 46, 68. (Decree of committee of
Public Safety.) The Treasury pays over to the city of Paris for
subsistence, on Aug. 2, 1793, two millions, August 14, three, and
September 2nd, one million; September 8, 16, and 23, one million each,
and so on. . . . Between August 7, 1793 and Germinal '9, year II.,
the Treasury paid over to Paris, thirty one millions.
[60] Ibid, AF., II., 68. Decrees of Brumaire 14, Niv?se 7 and
Germinal 22 on the departments assigned to the supply of Paris.
Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 489. (Speech by Danton in Jacobin club,
Aug.28, '793.) "I constantly asserted that it was necessary to give
all to the mayor of Paris if he exacted it to feed its inhabitants. .
. . Let us sacrifice one hundred and ten millions and save Paris and
through it, the Republic."
[61] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vols. 1410 and 1411. Reports
of June 20 and 21, 1793, July 21, 22, 28, 29 and 31, and every day of
the months of August and September, 1793. Schmidt, "Tableaux de la
Revolution Fran?aise," vol. II., passim - Dauban, "Paris in 1794,"
(especially throughout Vent?se, year II.). - Archives Nationales,
F.


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