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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER IV
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"This club has quite recently obtained from the Directory of the department, on the most contemptible allegation, an order requiring of M.de Coincy, lieutenant-general at Toulon, to send the admirable Ernest regiment out of Marseilles, and M.de Coincy has yielded."] [Footnote 2458: For instance (Guillon de Montleon, "Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Lyon," I.109), the general in command of the national guard of this large town in 1792 is Juillard, a poor silk-weaver of the faubourg of the Grande Cote, a former soldier.] [Footnote 2459: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3215, affair of Plabennec (very curious, showing the tyrannical spirit of the Jacobins and the good disposition at bottom of the Catholic peasantry)--The commune of Brest dispatches against that of Plabennec 400 men, with two cannon and commissioners chosen by the club .-- Many documents, among them: Petition of 150 active citizens of Brest, May 16, 1791.

Deliberations of the council-general and commune of Brest, May 17.

Letter of the Directory of the district, May 17 (very eloquent).

Deliberations of the municipality of Plabennec, May 20.

Letter of the municipality of Brest to the minister, May 21.


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