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(Haute…Loire); and out of 900 recently recruited at Puy; to form the

nucleus of the second battalion; 800 again have imitated their

example。〃 … Dufort de Cheverney; 〃Mémoires;〃 September; 1799。  〃We

learned that out of 400 conscripts confined in the (Blois) chateau;

who were to set out that night; 100 had disappeared。〃 … October 12;

1799: 〃The conscripts are in the chateau to the number of 5 or 600。

They say that they will not desert until out of the department and on

the road; so as not to compromise their families。〃 … October 14; 〃200

have deserted; leaving about 300。〃 … Archives Nationales; F。7; 3267。

(Reports every ten days on refractory conscripts or deserters arrested

by the military police; year VIII。  Department of Seine…et…Oise。) In

this department alone; there are 66 arrests in Vendémiaire; 136 in

Brumaire; 56 in Frimaire and 86 in Pluvi?se 。



'126' Mallet…Dupan; No。  for January 25; 1799。  (Letter from Belgium。)

〃To…day we see a revolt like that which the United Provinces made

against the Duke of Alba。  Never have the Belgians since Philip II。

displayed similar motives for resistance and vengeance。〃



'127' Decrees of Fructidor 19; year VI。  and Vendémiaire 27; year VII。

… Mallet…Dupan; No。  for November 25; 1798。)



'128' M。 Léonce de Lavergne (〃Economie rurale de la France since

1789;〃 p。38) estimates at a million the number of men sacrificed in

the wars between 1792 and 1800。  … 〃Trustworthy officials; who; a year

a go; have had the official documents in their possession; have

certified to me that the war statistics for the levying of troops

between 1794 and the middle of 1795 had raised 900;000 men of whom

650;000 had been lost in battle; in the hospitals or by desertion。〃

Mallet…Dupan。  (No。  for December 10; 1798。  … Ibid。  (No。  for March

20; 1799。) 〃Dumas affirmed that; in the Legislative Corps; the

National Guard had renewed the battalions of the defenders of the

country three times。  。  。  。  The fact of the shameful administration

of the hospitals is proved through the admissions of generals;

commissaries and deputies that the soldiers were dying for want of

food and medicine。  If we add to this the extravagance with which the

leaders of the armies let the me be killed; we can readily comprehend

this triple renewal in the space of seven years。  …  As an

illustration there was the village of four hundred and fifty

inhabitants in 1789 furnished (1792 and 1793) fifty soldiers。  (〃

Histoire du Village de Croissy; Seine…et…Oise pendant la Revolution;〃

by Campenon。)。… La Vendée was a bottomless pit; like Spain and Russia

afterwards。  〃A good republican; who entrusted with the supply the

Vendée army with provisions for fifteen months; assured me that out of

two hundred thousand men whom he had seen precipitated into this gulf

there were not ten thousand that came of it。〃 (Meissner; 〃Voyage à

Paris;〃 p。338; latter end of 1795) … The following figures

(〃Statistiques des Préfets〃 years IX。; until XI。) are exact。  Eight

departments; (Doubs; Ain; Eure; Meurthe; Aisne; Aude; Dr?me; Moselle)

furnish the total number of their volunteers; recruits and conscripts;

amounting to 193;343。  These three departments (Arthur Young; 〃Voyage

en France;〃 II。; 31) had; in 1790; a population of 2;446;000 souls:

the proportion indicates that out of 26 million Frenchmen a little

more than 2 millions were called up for military service。  … On the

other hand; five departments (Doubs; Eure; Meurthe; Aisne; Moselle)

gave; not only the number of their soldiers; 131;322; but likewise

that of their dead; 56;976; or out of 1000 men furnished 435 died。

This proportion shows 870;000 dead out of two million soldiers。



'129' The statistics of the prefects and reports of council…generals

of the year IX。  all agree in the statements of the notable diminution

of the masculine adult population。  … Lord Malmesbury had already made

the same observation in 1796。  (〃Diary;〃 October 21 and 23; 1796; from

Calais to Paris。) 〃Children and women were working in the fields。  Men

evidently reduced in number。  。  。  。  Carts often drawn by women and

most of them by old people or boys。  It is plain that the male

population has diminished; for the women we saw on the road surpassed

the number of men in the proportion of four to one。〃  Wherever the

number of the population is filled up it is through the infantile and

feminine increase。  Nearly all the prefects and council…generals state

that precocious marriages have multiplied to excess through

conscription。  … Dufort de Cheverney; 〃Mémoires;〃 September 1st; 1800。

〃 The conscription having spared the married; all the young men

married at the age of sixteen。  The number of children in the commune

is double and triple what it was formerly。〃



'130' Sauzay; X。; 471。  (Speech by Representative Biot; Aug。29; 1799。)



'131' Albert Babeau; II。; 466。  (Letter of Milany; July 1; 1798; and

report by Pout; Messidor; year VI。)



'132' Schmidt; III。; 374。  (Reports on the situation of the department

of the Seine; Ventose; year VII。) … Dufort de Cheverney; 〃Mémoires;〃

October 22; 1799。  〃The column of militia sets out to…day; there are

no more than thirty persons in it; and these again are all paid or not

paid clerks; attachés of the Republic; all these belonging to the

department; to the director of domains; in fine; all the bureaus。〃



'133' Schmidt; III。; 374。  (Reports on the situation of the department

of the Seine; Ventose; year VII。) … Dufort de Cheverney; 〃Mémoires;〃

October 22; 1799。  〃The column of militia sets out to…day; there are

no more than thirty persons in it; and these again are all paid or not

paid clerks; attachés of the Republic; all these belonging to the

department; to the director of domains; in fine; all the bureaus。〃



'134' M。 de Lafayette; 〃Mémoires;〃 II。; 162。  (Letter of July 22;

1799。) 〃The other day; at the mass in St。  Roch; a man by the side of

our dear Grammont; said fervently: 〃My God; have mercy on us;

exterminate the nation !〃 This; indeed; simply meant: 〃My God; deliver

us from the Convention system!〃



'135' Schmidt;298; 352; 377; 451; etc。  (Ventose; Frimaire and

Fructidor; year VII。)



'136' Ibid。; III。  (Reports of Prairial; year III。; department of the

Seine。)



'137' M。 de Lafayette; 〃Memoires;〃 II。; 164。  (Letter of July 14;

1799。) … De Tocqueville; 〃(?uvres complètes;〃 V。; 270。  (Testinony of

a contemporary。) … Sauzay; X。; 470; 471。  (Speeches by Briot and de

Echassériaux): 〃I cannot understand the frightful state of torpor into

which minds have fallen; people have come to believing nothing; to

feeling nothing; to doing nothing 。  。  。  。  The great nation which

had overcome all and created everything around her; seems to exist

only in the armies and in a few generous souls。〃



'138' Lord Malmesbury's 〃Diary;〃 (November 5; 1796)。  〃At

Randonneau's; who published all the acts and laws 。  。  。  。  Very

talkative; but clever 。  。  。  。  Ten thousand laws published since

1789; but only seventy enforced。〃… Ludovic Sciout; IV。; 770。  (Reports

of year VII。) In Puy de Dome: 〃Out of two hundred and eighty…six

communes there are two hundred in which the agents have committed

every species of forgery on the registers of the Etat…Civil and in the

copying of its acts; to clear individuals of military service。  Here;

young men of twenty and twenty…five are married to women of seventy…

two and eighty years of age; and even to those who have long been

dead; then; an extract from the death register clears a man who is

alive and well。〃 … 〃 Forged contracts are presented to avoid military

service; young soldiers are married to women of eighty; one woman;

thanks to a series of forgeries; is found married to eight or ten

conscripts。〃 (Letter of an officer of the Gendarmerie to Roanne;

Ventose 9; year VIII。)



'139' Words of De Tocqueville。  … 〃Le Duc de Broglie;〃 by M。 Guizot;

p。  16。  (Words of the Duc de Brog

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