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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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33, 35, 87, 92.] [Footnote 2220: Eugene Schuyler, "Peter the Great," vol.2.] [Footnote 2221: Cf.

"The Revolution" vol.II., pp.

46 and 323, vol.
III., ch I.Archives des Affaires Etrangeres.Vol.332.

(Letter by Thiberge, Marseilles, Brumaire 14, year II.) "I have been to Marteygne, a small town ten leagues from Marseilles, along with my colleague Fournet; I found (je trouvee) seventeen patriots in a town of give thousand population."-- Ibid., (Letter by Regulus Leclerc, Bergues, Brumaire 15, year II.) At Bergues, he says, "the municipality is composed of traders with empty stores and brewers without beer since the law of the maximum." Consequently there is universal lukewarmness, "only forty persons being found to form a popular club, holding sessions as a favor every five days....

Public spirit at Bergues is dead; fanaticism rules."-- Archives Nationales, F7, 7164 (Department of Var, reports of year V."General idea.")--"At Draguignan, out of seven thousand souls, forty patriots, exclusifs, despised or dishonest; at Vidauban, nine or ten exclusifs, favored by the municipality and who live freely without their means being known; at Brignolles, frequent robberies on the road by robbers said to have been very patriotic in the beginning of the Revolution: people are afraid of them and dare not name them; at Frejus, nine leading exclusifs who pass all their time in the cafe."-- Berryat-Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire," p.
146 .-- Brutus Thierry, grocer, member of the Rev.Com.Of Angers, said that "in angers, there were not sixty revolutionaries."] [Footnote 2222: Macaulay.


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