"
Mallet-Dupan. (No. for December 10, 1798. - Ibid. (No. for March
20, 1799.) "Dumas affirmed that, in the Legislative Corps, the
National Guard had renewed the battalions of the defenders of the
country three times. . . . The fact of the shameful administration
of the hospitals is proved through the admissions of generals,
commissaries and deputies that the soldiers were dying for want of
food and medicine. If we add to this the extravagance with which the
leaders of the armies let the me be killed, we can readily comprehend
this triple renewal in the space of seven years. - As an
illustration there was the village of four hundred and fifty
inhabitants in 1789 furnished (1792 and 1793) fifty soldiers. ("
Histoire du Village de Croissy, Seine-et-Oise pendant la Revolution,"
by Campenon.).- La Vend?e was a bottomless pit, like Spain and Russia
afterwards. "A good republican, who entrusted with the supply the
Vend?e army with provisions for fifteen months, assured me that out of
two hundred thousand men whom he had seen precipitated into this gulf
there were not ten thousand that came of it." (Meissner, "Voyage ?
Paris," p.338, latter end of 1795) - The following figures
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