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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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It is for this reason that I have instituted the Legion of Honor."] [Footnote 4125: Baron de Vitrolles, "Memoires," preface, XXI.

Comte de Villele, "Memoires et Correspondance," I., 189 (August, 1807).] [Footnote 4126: Faber, "Notice sur l'interieur de la France" (1807), p.25.] [Footnote 4127: Supporters of the Sovereign king or of the legitimate royal dynasty.

(SR.)] [Footnote 4128: The following document shows the sense and aim of the change, which goes on after the year VIII, also the contrast between both administrative staffs.

(Archives Nationales, F 7, 3219; letter of M.Alquier to the First Consul, Pluviose 18, year VIII.) M.Alquier, on his way to Madrid, stops at Toulouse and sends a report to the authorities of Haute-Garonne: "I was desirous of seeing the central administration.

I found there the ideas and language of 1793.


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