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Great efforts will be necessary to bring them up to the level of the Revolution."] [Footnote 3359: According to the statistics of 1866 (published in 1869) a district of one thousand square kilometres contains on an average, thirty-three communes above five hundred souls, twenty-three from five hundred to one thousand, seventeen bourgs and small towns from one thousand to five thousand, and one average town, or very large one, about five thousand.

Taking into account the changes that have taken place in seventy years, one may judge from these figures of the distribution of the population in 1793.

This distribution explains why, instead of forty-five thousand revolutionary committees, there were only twenty-one thousand five hundred.] [Footnote 3360: "Souvenirs des M.Hua," 179.

"This country (Coucy-le-Chateau) protected by its bad roads and still more by its nullity, belonged to that small number in which the revolutionary turmoil was least felt."] [Footnote 3361: Among other documents of use in composing this picture I must cite, as first in importance, the five files containing all the documents referring to the mission of the representative Albert, in Aisne and Marne.

(Ventose and Germinal, year III.) Nowhere do we find more precise details of the sentiments of the peasant, of the common laborer and of the lower bourgeois from 1792 to 1795.