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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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(Session of Aug.12.Speech by Lacroix).] [Footnote 1145: Ibid., 387 .-- Cf.

Ibid., 410, session of August 16.

The delegates return there to insist on a levy, en masse, the levy of the first class not appearing sufficient to them.

(levy means mobilization of all men)--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 464.

Delegate Royer, Cure of Chalons-sur-Saone, demands that the aristocrats "chained together in sixes" be put in the front rank in battle "to avoid the risks of sauve qui peut."] [Footnote 1146: Decrees of August 14 and 16.] [Footnote 1147: Moniteur, XVII., 375.] [Footnote 1148: Riouffe, "Memoires," 19: "An entire generation, the real disciples of Jean-Jacques, Voltaire and Diderot, could be, and was annihilated, to a large extent under the pretext of federalism."] [Footnote 1149: Moniteur, XVII., 102.


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