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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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It will take a good many years to bring them back to minding.'] [Footnote 2193: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 364 (Report by Robespierre, Floreal 8, year II.)] [Footnote 2194: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 385--( Address of a Jacobin deputation to the Convention, Floreal 27, year II.)--At Bayeux, the young girl who represented Liberty, had the following inscription on her breast or back: "Do not make of me an instrument of licentiousness." (Gustave Flaubert, family souvenirs.)] [Footnote 2195: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 415.

(Report by Fabre d'Eglantine, October 6, 1793.)--( Gregoire, "Memoires," I., 341.) "The new calendar was invented by Romme in order to get rid of Sunday.

This was his object; he admitted it to me."] [Footnote 2196: Ibid., XXXII., 274.

(Report by Robespierre, Floreal 18, year II.) "National Festivals form an essential part of public education....

A system of national festivals is the most powerful means of regeneration."] [Footnote 2197: Ibid., XXXVIII., 335.


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