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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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They pillage the gold and silver coin.

They carry off plate, jewels, copper utensils and other effects, bed-clothes, docks, vehicles, etc.

No receipt is given.

No statement is made of what is carried off.

They rest content by at the end of the month, reporting, in a sort of proces-verbal drawn up at a meeting of the committee, that, according to returns of the visits made, very little plate was found, and only a little money in gold and silver, all without any calculation or enumeration."-- "Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p.93.
(February 25, 1795.) The meetings of the popular club "were largely devoted to reading the infamous doings and robberies of the revolutionary committee....


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