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(male or female) will pay in one hour the sum of--, under penalty of being considered suspect and treated as such."-- "Recueil des Pieces Authentiques concernant la Revolution a Strasbourg," I., 128, 187. (Expressions of the representative Baudot in a letter dated Brumaire 29, year II.)] [Footnote 3372: Archives Nationales: the acts and letters of the representatives on mission are classed by departments .-- On the delegates of the representatives on mission, I will cite but one text.
(Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.333, letter of Garrigues, Auch, Pluviose 24, year II.): "A delegate of Dartigoyte goes to l'Isle and, in the popular club, wants the cure of the place to get rid of his priestly attributes.
The man answers, so they tell me, that he would cheerfully abstain from his duties, but that, if, in addition to this, they used force he would appeal to the convention, which had no idea of interfering with freedom of opinion.
'Very well,' replied Dartigoyte emissary, 'I appeal to a gendarme,' and he at once ordered his arrest."] [Footnote 3373: Lallier, "Une commission D'enquete et de Propagande," p.7.
(It is composed of twelve members, selected by the club of Nantes, who overrun the district of Ancenis, six thousand francs of fees being allowed it.)--Babeau, II., 280.
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