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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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37 (Dutard, June 13).
Statement of a wigmaker's wife: "They are a vile set, the servants.
Some of them come here every day.

They chatter away and say all sorts of horrible things about their masters.

They are all just alike.

Nobody is crazier than they are.

I knew that some of them had received benefits from their masters, and others who were:still being kindly treated; but nothing stopped them."] [Footnote 3393: Schmidt, I.246 (Dutard, May 18) .-- Gregoire, "Memoires," I.387.The mental and moral decline of the party is well shown in the new composition of the Jacobin Club after September, 1792: "I went back there," says Gregoire in September, 1792 (after a year's absence), "and found it unrecognizable; no opinions could be expressed there other than those of the Paris section...


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