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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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41, No.

1802.
(Denunciation, by the six sections of the Dijon commune to the convention, of Leonard Bourdon and Piochefer Bernard de Saintes, during their mission in Cote-d'Or.) Details on the orgies of Bernard with the municipality, and on the drunkenness and debaucheries of Bourdon with the riff-raff~ of the country; authentic documents proving the robberies and assassinations committed by Bernard.

He pillaged the house of M.Micault, and, in four hours, had this person arrested, tried and guillotined; he attended the execution himself, and that evening, in the dead man's house, danced and sang before his daughter with his acolytes.] [Footnote 32112: "Souvenirs," by General Pelleport, p.8.He, with his battalion, is inspected in the Place du Capitale, at Toulouse, by the representative on mission.

"It seems as if I can still see that charlatan: He shook his ugly plumed head and dragged along his saber like a merry soldier, wishing to appear brave.

It made me feel sad."] [Footnote 32113: Fervel, "Campagnes des Francais dans les Pyrenees Orientals," I., 169.


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