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[124] Mallet-Dupan, ibid., number for January 10 1791. "December 31,
1796. Marquis Litta had already paid assessments amounting to 500,000
livres milanais, Marquis T., 420,000, Count Grepi 900,000, and other
proprietors in proportion." Ransom of the "Decurioni of Milan, and
other hostages sent into France, 1,500,000 livres." -- This is in
conformity with the Jacobin theory. In the old instructions of
Carnot, we read the following sentence: "Assessments must be laid
exclusively on the rich; the people must see that we are only
liberators.... Enter as benefactors of the people, and at the same
time as the scourge of the great, the rich and enemies of the French
name." (Carnot, I., 433.)
[125] Ludovic Sciout, IV., 776. (Reports of the year VII., Archives
Nationales, F.7, 7701 and 7718.) "Out of 1,400 men composing the first
auxiliary battalion of conscripts, 1087 cowardly deserted their flag
(Haute-Loire), and out of 900 recently recruited at Puy, to form the
nucleus of the second battalion, 800 again have imitated their
example." - Dufort de Cheverney, "M?moires," September, 1799. "We
learned that out of 400 conscripts confined in the (Blois) chateau,
who were to set out that night, 100 had disappeared.
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