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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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20, 1791).

Information supplied by the deputies of the Upper and Lower Rhine departments .-- M.
Koch says: "An army of emigres never existed, unless it be a petty gathering, which took place at Ettenheim, a few leagues from Strasbourg...

(This troop) encamped in tents, but only because it lacked barracks and houses."-- M.--, deputy of the lower Rhine, says: "This army at Ettenheim is composed of about five or six hundred poorly-clad, half-paid men, deserters of all nations, sleeping in tents, for lack of other shelter, and armed with clubs, for lack of fire-arms and deserting every day, because money is getting scarce.

The second army, at Worms, under the command of a Conde, is composed of three hundred gentlemen, and as many valets and grooms.

I have to add, that the letters which reach me from Strasbourg, containing extracts of inside information from Frankfort, Munich, Regensburg, and Vienna, announce the most pacific intentions on the part of the different courts, since receiving the notification of the king's submission." The number of armed emigrants increases, but always remain very small (Moniteur, X.678, letter of M.Delatouche, an eyewitness, Dec.


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