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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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A city official coolly replied to us: What would you have?
To oppose anarchy we have been forced to join the aristocrats, and they rule." Another says ironically to Ysabeau: "We did not anticipate that,--they are our tribunes."] [Footnote 1157: Jarrin, "Bourg et Belley pendant la Revolution" ("Annales de la Societe d'Emulation de l'Ain," 1878, Nos.

For January, February and March, p.

16).] [Footnote 1158: Louvet, 103, 108 .-- Guillon de Montleon, I., 305 and following pages .-- Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 151.

(Report of the delegates of the district of Andelys).

"One of members observed that there would be a good deal of trouble in raising an armed force of one thousand men."-- An administrator (a commissioner of Calvados) replied: "We shall have all the aristocrats on our side." The principal military leaders at Caen and at Lyons, Wimpffen, Precy, Puisaye, are Feuillants and form only a provisional alliance with the Girondists properly so called, Hence constant contentions and reciprocal mistrust.


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