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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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This measure is excellent and ensures the triumph of sans-culotteism."-- Archives Nationales, F.7, 4434.

(Letter of Perrieu to Brissot, Bordeaux, March 9, 1793.) Before June 2, the national club "of Bordeaux, composed of Maratists, did not comprise more than eight or ten individuals at most."-- Moniteur, XXII., 133.

(Speech by Thibeaudeau on the popular club of Poitiers, Vendemiaire II, year III.)--Ibid.

(Session of Brumaire 5, year III., letter of Cales, and session of Brumaire 17, year III., report by Cales.) "The popular club of Dijon made all neighboring administrative bodies, citizens and districts tremble.

All were subject to its laws, and three or four men in it made them.


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