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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER VI
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He left at his death about 85,000 francs in national property bought in 1791.

Besides, he probably held property and valuables under third parties, who kept them after his death.

(De Martel, "Types Revolutionnaires," 2d part, p.139.Investigations of Blache at Choisy-sur-Seine, where a certain Fauvel seems to have been Danton's assumed name.)--See on this question, "Avocats aux conseils du Roi," by Emil Bos, pp.513-520.

According to accounts proved by M.Bos, it follows that Danton, at the end of 1791, was in debt to the amount of 53,000 francs; this is the hole stopped by the court.

On the other side, Danton before the Revolution signs himself Danton even in authentic writing, which is an usurpation of nobility and at that time subject to the penalty of the galleys .-- The double-faced infidelity in question must have been frequent, for their leaders were anything else but sensitive.
On the 7th of August Madame Elizabeth tells M.de Montmorin that the insurrection would not take place; that Petion and Santerre were concerned in it, and that they had received 750,000 francs to prevent it and bring over the Marseilles troop to the king's side (Malouet, II.


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