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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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(Ibid., vol., 1411.

Letter of Meyenfeld to Minister Desforges, Brumaire 27, year II.)--Archives Nationales, AF., II., 111.

(Order of Couthon, Maignet, Chateauneuf, Randon, La Porte and Albitte, Commune-Affranchie, Brumaire 9, year II., establishing in the ten surrounding departments a revolutionary army of one thousand men per department, for the conscription of grain.

Each army is to be directed by commissioners, strangers to the department, and is to operate in other departments than in the one where it is raised.)] [Footnote 33157: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, 331.

(Letter of Chepy, Frimaire II.)--Writing one month before this, (Brumaire 6) he says: "The farmers show themselves very hostile against the towns and the law of the maximum.


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