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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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(SR).] [Footnote 3381: Mortimer-Ternaux, V.101.] [Footnote 3382: Meillan, 54 .-- Raffet, Henriot's competitor and denounced as an aristocrat, had at first the most votes, 4,953 against 4,578.

At the last ballot, out of about 15,000 he still has 5,900 against 9,087 for Henriot .-- Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII.

31: "The electors had to vote thirty at a time.

All who dared give their votes to Raffet were marked with a red cross on the roll-call, followed by the epithet of anti-revolutionary."] [Footnote 3383: Schmidt, II.

37 (Dutard, June 13): "Marat and others have a party of from 4,000 to 6,000 men, who would do anything to rescue them."-- Meillan, 155 (depositions taken by the Commission of the Twelve): Laforet has stated that there were 6,000 sans-culottes to massacre objectionable deputies at the first signal .-- Schmidt, II, 87 (Dutard, June 24): "I know that there are not in all Paris 3,000 decided revolutionaries."] [Footnote 3384: Moniteur, XV.


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