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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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(August, 1793.) "Plan adopted" for the organization of the Police, "excepting executive modifications." In fact, some months later, the number of claqueurs, male and female, is much greater, and finally reaches a thousand.

(Beaulieu, "Essais," V., l10.)--The same plan comprehends fifteen agents at two thousand four hundred francs, "selected from the frequenters of the clubs," to revise the daily morning lists; thirty at one thousand francs, for watching popular clubs, and ninety to twelve hundred francs for watching the section assemblies.] [Footnote 3333: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4436.

(Letter of Bouchotte, Minister of war, Prairial 5, year II.) "The appointment of Ronsin, as well as of all his staff, again excited public opinion.

The Committee, to assure itself, sent the list to the Jacobin club, where they were accepted."-- Ibid., AF.,II., 58.

"Paris, Brumaire II, year II., club of the Friends of Liberty and Equality, in session at the former Jacobin club, rue St.Honore.List of the citizens who are to set out for Lyons and act as national commissioners.


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