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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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"Domiciliary visits, rummaging everywhere, stealing jewelry, money,
clothes, etc."
[33] Mallet-Dupan, II., 363. -- Schmidt (Police report of Brumaire 26
and 27).
[34] Dufort de Cheverney, (manuscript memoirs communicated by Robert
de Cr?vec?ur). -- Report of the public prosecutor, dated Thermidor
13, year III., according to documents handed in on Messidor 16, by the
foreman of the jury of indictment and by the juges de paix of Chinon,
Saumur, Tours, Amboise, Blois, Beaugency, etc., relating to the
charges made by the administrators of the department of Loire-et-Cher,
dated Frimaire 30, year II., concerning the fusillades at Blois,
Frimaire 19, year II.
[35] The line of this march from Saumur to Montsoreau could be traced
by the blood along the road; the leaders shot those who faltered with
fatigue. - On reaching Blois, Frimaire 18, H?zine says, before the
town-hall, "To-morrow morning they shall be straightened out and we'll
show the Bl?sois how the thing is managed." The following day, H?zine
and Gidouin, taking a walk with Lepetit, commander of the escort, in
the court of the inn, say to him: "You'll shoot some of them for us.
You must give the people an example by shooting some of those rascally
priests.


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