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[138] Lord Malmesbury's "Diary," (November 5, 1796). "At
Randonneau's, who published all the acts and laws . . . . Very
talkative, but clever . . . . Ten thousand laws published since
1789, but only seventy enforced."- Ludovic Sciout, IV., 770. (Reports
of year VII.) In Puy de Dome: "Out of two hundred and eighty-six
communes there are two hundred in which the agents have committed
every species of forgery on the registers of the Etat-Civil and in the
copying of its acts, to clear individuals of military service. Here,
young men of twenty and twenty-five are married to women of seventy-
two and eighty years of age, and even to those who have long been
dead; then, an extract from the death register clears a man who is
alive and well." - " Forged contracts are presented to avoid military
service, young soldiers are married to women of eighty; one woman,
thanks to a series of forgeries, is found married to eight or ten
conscripts." (Letter of an officer of the Gendarmerie to Roanne,
Ventose 9, year VIII.)
[139] Words of De Tocqueville. - "Le Duc de Broglie," by M. Guizot,
p. 16. (Words of the Duc de Broglie.) "Those who were not living at
this time could form no idea of the profound discouragement into which
France had fallen in the interval between Fructidor 18 and Brumaire
18.
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