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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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(Letter of Duquesnoy to the central bureau of representatives at Arras.) The import of these untranslatable profanities being sufficiently clear I let them stand as in the original.-Tr.] [Footnote 32104: "Un Sejour en France," 158, 171 .-- Manuscript journal of Mallet du Pan (January, 1795) .-- Cf.

his letters to the convention, the jokes of jailors and sbirri, for instance .-- (Moniteur, XVIII., 214, Brumaire I, year II.)--Lacretelle, "Dix Annees d'Epreuves," 178.

"He ordered that everybody should dance in his fief of Picardy.

They danced even in prison.

Whoever did not dance was "suspect." He insisted on a rigid observance of the fetes in honor of Reason, and that everybody should visit the temple of the Goddess each decadi, which was the cathedral (at Noyon).


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