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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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It has been estimated, that all these deputies put together do not possess 300,000 livres solid income.

The majority of the members of this Assembly have received no education whatever."] [Footnote 2204: They rank as Marechaux de camp, a grade corresponding to that of brigadier-general.

They are Dupuy-Montbrun (deceased in March, 1792), Descrots-d'Estree, a weak and worn old man whom his children forced into the Legislative Assembly, and, lastly, Mathieu Dumas, a conservative, and the only prominent one.] [Footnote 2205: "Correspondance du Baron de Stael," Jan.19, 1792 .-- Gouverneur Morris (II.162, Feb.

4, 1792) writes to Washington that M.de Warville, on the diplomatic committee, proposed to cede Dunkirk and Calais to England, as a pledge of fidelity by France, in any engagement which she might enter into.

You can judge, by this, of the wisdom and virtue of the faction to which he belongs--Buchez et Roux, XXX 89 (defense of Brissot, Jan.


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