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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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He is to leave and go elsewhere."-- (AF.II., 36, Nivose 21, letter to Fouche, Laporte, and Albitte, at Commune-affranchie, signed by Billaud-Varennes and composed by him.) "The convention, Nivose I, has approved of the orders and other measures taken by you.

We can add nothing to its approval.

The Committee of Public Safety subjects all operations to the same principles, that is to say, it conforms to yours and acts with you."] [Footnote 3235: Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux Lundis," VIII., 105.
(Unpublished report by Vice-admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, May 28, 1794.)] [Footnote 3236: Carnot, "Memoires," I., 107.] [Footnote 3237: Ibid., I., 450, 523, 527, "we often ate only a morsel of dry bread on the Committee's table."] [Footnote 3238: Moniteur, XXI., 362.

(Speech by Cambon, Session of Thermidor 11, year II.)] [Footnote 3239: Beugnot, "Memoires," II., 15.

(Stated by Jean Bon himself in a conversation at Mayence in 1813.)] [Footnote 3240: Gaudia, duc de Gaete, "Memoires," I., 16, 28.


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