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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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(Session of the convention, August 11, 1793).

Chabot: "I demand a law requiring every man who does not appear at a primary meeting to give good reason for his absence; also, that any man who has not favored the Constitution, be declared ineligible to all constitutional franchises." Ibid., 50.

(Meeting of the Commune, July 4th).

Leonard Bourdon demands, in the name of his section, the Gravilliers, a register on which to inscribe those who accept the Constitution, "in order that those who do not vote for it may be known."-- Souzay, IV.159.

M.Boillon, of Belleherbe, is arrested "for being present at the primary assembly of the canton of Vaucluse, and when called upon to accept the Constitutional act, leaving without voting."] [Footnote 1121: Moniteur, XVII., 11.


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