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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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At Aix, Marseilles, Toulon, and in more than forty towns and market-villages, this is summarily abolished; at Aupt and at Luc nothing remains of the weighing-house but the four walls.

At Marseilles the home of the slaughter-house contractor and at Brignolles that of the director of the leather excise, are sacked.

The determination is "to purge the land of excise-men.

"-- This is only a beginning; bread and other provisions must become cheap, and that without delay.

At Arles, the Corporation of sailors, presided over by M.de Barras, consul, had just elected its representatives.


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