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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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(" Tableau Historique de St.Lazare.") The narrator is put into prison in the rue de Sevres in October, 1793 .-- II., 186.

("An historical account of the jail in the rue de Sevres.") The narrator was confined there during the last months of the Reign of Terror.] [Footnote 3352: A game of chance.] [Footnote 3353: "Un Sejour en France de 1792 a 1795," 281.

"We had an appointment in the afternoon with a person employed by the committee on National Domains; he was to help my friend with her claims.

This man was originally a valet to the Marquise's brother; on the outbreak of the Revolution he set up a shop, failed and became a rabid Jacobin, and, at last, member of a revolutionary committee.

As such, he found a way....


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