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Twelve hundred gentlemen have left Poitou alone; Auvergne, Limousin, and ten other provinces have been equally depopulated of their landowners.

There are towns in which nobody remains but common workmen, a club, and the crowd of devouring office-holders created by the Constitution.

All the nobles in Brittany have left, and the emigration has begun in Normandy, and is going on in the frontier provinces.
"More than two-thirds of the army will be without officers." On being called upon to take the new oath in which the King's name is purposely omitted, "six thousand officers send in their resignation." The example gradually becomes contagious; they are men of the sword, and their honor is at stake.

Many of them join the princes at Coblentz, and subsequently do battle against France in the belief that they are contending only against their executioners.
The treatment of the nobles by the Assembly is the same as the treatment of the Protestants by Louis XIV.[2236] In both cases the oppressed are a superior class of men.