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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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Letter to the Committee on the War, signed by Barere and Billaud-Varennes, Pluviose 23,, year II.] [Footnote 3287: Ibid., AF., II., 36.

Letter of the Committee of Public Safety to Le Carpentier, on mission in l'Orne, Brumaire 19, year II.
"The administrative bodies of Alencon, the district excepted, are wholly gangrened; all are Feuillants, or infected with a no less pernicious spirit....

For the choice of subjects, and the incarceration of individuals, you can refer to the sans-culottes: the most nervous are Symaroli and Preval .-- At Montagne, the administration must be wholly removed, as well as the collector of the district, and the post-master;...

purify the popular club, expel nobles and limbs of the law, those that have been turned out of office, priests, muscadins, etc....

Dissolve two companies, one the grenadiers and the other the infantry who are very muscadin and too fond of processions....


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