An annual crop of young men torn from their families and sent to death."-- Archives nationales, F7, 3014.

(Reports of prefects, 1806.) After this date, and even from the beginning, there is extreme repugnance which is only overcome by severe means..

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(Ardeche.) "If the state of the country were to be judged of by the results of the conscription one would have a poor idea of it."-- (Ariege.) "At Brussac, district of Foix, four or five individuals arm themselves with stones and knives to help a conscript escape, arrested by the gendarmes....

A garrison was ordered to this commune."-- At Massat, district of Saint-Girons, on a few brigades of gendarmes entering this commune to establish a garrison, in order to hasten the departure of refractory conscripts, they were stoned; a shot even was fired at this troop....

A garrison was placed in these hamlets as in the rest of the commune .-- During the night of Frimaire 16-17 last, six strange men presented themselves before the prison of Saint-Girons and loudly demanded Gouaze, a deserter and condemned.