" - Dufort
de Cheverney, Ibid., March, 1799. "The former noblesse and even
citizens who are at all well-off need not depend on any
amelioration.... They must expect a complete rescission of bodies and
goods.... Pecuniary resources are diminishing more and more....
Impositions are starving the country." - Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure
Britannique," January 25, 1799. "Thousands of invalids with wooden
legs garrison the houses of the tax-payers who do not pay according to
the humor of the collectors. The proportion of impositions as now
laid in relation to those of the ancient regime in the towns generally
is as 88 to 32."
[105] De Tocqueville, "?uvres compl?tes," V., 65. (Extracts from
secret reports on the state of the Republic, September 26, 1799.)
[106] Decree of Messidor 24, year VI.
[107] De Barante, "Histoire du Directoire," III., 456.
[108] A. Sorel, " Revue Historique," No.1, for March and May, 1882.
"Les Fronti?res Constitutionelles en 1795." The treaties concluded in
1795 with Tuscany, Prussia and Spain show that peace was easy and that
the recognition of the Republic was effected even before the
Republican government was organized. . .
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