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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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"The Revolution," II., 302, 303 .-- Mercier, "Paris pendant la Revolution," I., 151 .-- Moniteur, XVIII., 660.

(Session of Frimaire 24, speech by Lecomtre in the Convention.)--On robberies and the bribes paid, see, among other documents, "Memoires sur les Prisons," I., 290.

(Eighty thousand francs of bribes given to the head of the police force by Perisial, keeper of an eating-house, for the privilege of feeding prisoners in St.Lazare.)] [Footnote 3341: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 77.

(Trial of Fouquier-Tinville.) Testimony of Robillard: "Another day, in the general assembly, he struck a citizen with his saber."] [Footnote 3342: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 407.

(Lists in Robespierre's handwriting.)] [Footnote 3343: Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I., 46-51.-Buchot is not the only one of his species in the ministry of Foreign Affairs.


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