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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER V
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"The seals were broken, and jewelry, dresses, and female apparel were confiscated for the benefit of the general and his followers.

There was nothing, even down to the crockery, which did not become the booty of these self-styled republicans"] [Footnote 2528: Mathon de la Varenne, "Histoire particuliere des evenements qui ont eu lieu en juin, juillet, aout, et septembre, 1792," p.23.

(He knew Saint-Huruge personally.) Saint-Huruge had married an actress at Lyons in 1778.

On returning to Paris he learned through the police that his wife was a trollop, and he treated her accordingly.
Enraged, she looked up Saint-Huruge's past career, and found two charges against him, one for the robbery and assassination of an alien merchant, and the other for infanticide; she obtained his incarceration by a lettre-de-cachet.

He was shut in Charenton from Jan.


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