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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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A contemptible financial system, wasteful, irritating, devouring, absolutely independent of your supreme oversight....

Anti-revolution exists in the financial department....

Who are its head administrators?
Brissotins, Feuillants, aristocrats and well-known knaves--the Cambons, the Mallarmes, the Ramels!"] [Footnote 3241: Carnot, "Memoires," I., 425.] [Footnote 3242: Moniteur, XXIV., 47, 50.

(Session of Germinal 2, year II.) Speeches by Lindet and Carnot with confirmatory details .-- Lindet says that he had signed twenty thousand papers .-- Ibid., XXXIII., 591.
(Session of Ventose 12, year III.

Speech by Barere.) "The labor of the Committee was divided amongst the different members composing it, but all, without distinction, signed each other's work.


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