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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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(Letter of Julien to Robespierre.)] [Footnote 32139: Archives Nationales, AF., II., III.

An order issued by Bourbotte, Tours, Messidor 5, year II., "requiring the district administration to furnish him personally, as well as for the citizens attached to his commission, forty bottles of red wine and thirty of white wine, to be taken from the cellars of emigres, or from those of persons condemned to death; and, besides this, fifty bottles of common wine other than white or red."-- On the 2nd of Messidor, ale is drunk and there is a fresh order for fifty bottles of red wine, fifty of common wine, and two bottles of brandy .-- De Martel, "Fouche," 419, 420 .-- Moniteur, XXIV., 604.

(Session of Prairial 13, par III.) "Dugue reads the list of charges brought against Mallarme.

He is accused....
of having put in requisition whatever pleased him for his table and for other wants, without paying for anything, not even for the post-horses and postillions that carried him."-- Ibid.

602.


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