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[99] Decree of Frimaire 9, year VI. (Exceptions in favor of the
actual members of the Directory, ministers, military men on duty, and
the members of the diverse National Assemblies, except those who in
the constituent Assembly protested against the abolition of nobility.)
One of the speakers, a future count of the Empire, proposed that every
noble claiming his inscription on the civic registers should sign the
following declaration: "As man and as republican, I equally detest the
insolent superstition which pretends to distinctions of birth, and the
cowardly and shameful superstition which believes in and maintains
it."
[100] Decree of Fructidor 19, year II.
[101] Lally-Tollendal, "D?fense des Emigr?s," (Paris. 1797, 2nd part,
49, 62, 74. Report of Portalis to the Council of Five Hundred, Feb.
18, 1796. "Regard that innumerable class of unfortunates who have
never left the republican soil." - Speech by Dubreuil, Aug.26, 1796.
"The supplementary list in the department of Avignon bears 1004 or
1005 names. And yet I can attest to you that there are not six names
on this enormous list justly put down as veritable emigrants."
[102] Ludovic Sciout, IV.
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