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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER IV
29/68

Report of the district administrators of Arles, Feb.

28 (according to private letters from Aix and Marseilles) .-- Barbaroux, "Memoires" (collection of Berville and Barriere), 106.

(Narrative of M.Watteville, major in the Ernest regiment.Ibid., 108) (Report from M.de Barbentane, commanding general).
These two documents show the liberalism, want of vigor, and the usual indecision of the superior authorities, especially the military authorities--Mercure de France, March 24, 1792 (letters from Aix).] [Footnote 2418: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3196.

Dispatches of the new Directory to the Minister, March 24 and April 4, 1792.

"Since the departure of the Directory, our administrative assembly is composed of only six members, notwithstanding our repeated summons to every member of the Council...


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