" - October 12,
1799: "The conscripts are in the ch?teau to the number of 5 or 600.
They say that they will not desert until out of the department and on
the road, so as not to compromise their families." - October 14, "200
have deserted, leaving about 300." - Archives Nationales, F.7, 3267.
(Reports every ten days on refractory conscripts or deserters arrested
by the military police, year VIII. Department of Seine-et-Oise.) In
this department alone, there are 66 arrests in Vend?miaire, 136 in
Brumaire, 56 in Frimaire and 86 in Pluvi?se .
[126] Mallet-Dupan, No. for January 25, 1799. (Letter from Belgium.)
"To-day we see a revolt like that which the United Provinces made
against the Duke of Alba. Never have the Belgians since Philip II.
displayed similar motives for resistance and vengeance."
[127] Decrees of Fructidor 19, year VI. and Vend?miaire 27, year VII.
- Mallet-Dupan, No. for November 25, 1798.)
[128] M. L?once de Lavergne ("Economie rurale de la France since
1789," p.38) estimates at a million the number of men sacrificed in
the wars between 1792 and 1800. - "Trustworthy officials, who, a year
a go, have had the official documents in their possession, have
certified to me that the war statistics for the levying of troops
between 1794 and the middle of 1795 had raised 900,000 men of whom
650,000 had been lost in battle, in the hospitals or by desertion.
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