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3, 1792.
They denounce a petition of the Jacobins of the town, who strive to deprive forty foresters of their places, nearly all with families, "on account of their once having been in the pay of a perjured king."-- Arnault ("Souvenirs d'un sexagenaire"), II.15.He resigns a small place he had in the assignate manufacture, because, he says, "the most insignificant place being sought for, he found himself exposed to every kind of denunciation."] [Footnote 3309: Dumouriez, III.
339 .-- Meillan, "Memoires," 27.
"Eight days after his installation as Minister of War, Beurnonville confessed to me that he had been offered sums to the amount of 500,000 francs to lend himself to embezzlements." He tries to sweep out the vermin of stealing employees, and is forthwith denounced by Marat .-- Barbaroux, "Memoires" (Ed.
Dauban).
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