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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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The members who designated 'suspects' often arrested them themselves, and drew up a proces-verbal in which they omitted to state the jewels and gold they found."] [Footnote 33121: Ibid., 461.

(Vendemaire 24, year III.

Visit of Representative Malarme.) The former Duc de Narbonne-Lorra aged eighty-four, says to Malarme: "Citizen representative, excuse me if I keep my cap on; I lost my hair in that prison, without having been able to get permission to have a wig made; it is worse than being robbed on the road." "Did they steal anything from you ?" "They stole one hundred and forty five louis d'or and paid me with an acquittance for a tax for the sans-culottes, which is another robbery done to the citizens of this commune where I have neither home nor possessions." "Who committed this robbery ?" "It was Citizen Berger, of the municipal council." "Was nothing else taken from you ?" "They took a silver coffee-pot, two soap-cases and a silver shaving-dish" "Who took those articles ?" "It was Citizen Miot (a notable of the council)." Miot confesses to having kept these objects and not taken them to the Mint.-Ibid., 178.

(Ventose 20, year II.) Prisoners all have their shoes taken, even those who had but one pair, a promise being made that they should have sabots in exchange, which they never got.

Their cloaks also were taken with a promise to pay for them, which was never done.--"Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p.92.


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