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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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11, 12, 1792.] [Footnote 3311: Sauzay, III.45.The number increases from 3,200 to 7,000.] [Footnote 3312: Durand-Maillane, "Memoires," p.

30: "This proceeding converted the French proletariat, which had no property or tenacity, into the dominant party at electoral assemblages....

The various clubs established in France (were) then masters of the elections." In the Bouches-du-Rhone "400 electors in Marseilles, one-sixth of whom had not the income of a silver marc, despotically controlled our Electoral Assembly.

Not a voice was allowed to be raised against them...

Only those were elected whom Barbaroux designated."] [Footnote 3313: Decree of Aug.


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