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(Register of the deliberations of the revolutionary committee of the Piques sections, Brumaire 27, year II.) "The Committee orders that the two-horse cab belonging to Lemarche be henceforth at the service of the section and of the Committee when measures of security are concerned." In this register, and others of the same series, we clearly see the inside of a committee and its vast despotism.
Style and orthography, with almost all, are of the same low order.] [Footnote 3338: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.1411.
(Report of Aug.21 and 22, 1793.) "General Henriot sent me several....
who made use of the authority of the Committee of Public Safety and General Security, as well as of that which he delegated to me, to make domiciliary visits at the houses of individuals who were not assured patriots; but that did not warrant their receiving money and even abstracting it."] [Footnote 3339: Dauban, ibid., 36 and 48.
(Case of the Notary, Brichard.)] [Footnote 3340: Cf.
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