This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...Decadi, were limited to Decadi only. The hour of meeting was changed from evening to noon: and the allowance which had been made by government of one day's labour to all citizens attending those meetings was discontinued. But the greatest alteration which now took place was that of dispersing the Jacobin Club. Several ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...Decadi, were limited to Decadi only. The hour of meeting was changed from evening to noon: and the allowance which had been made by government of one day's labour to all citizens attending those meetings was discontinued. But the greatest alteration which now took place was that of dispersing the Jacobin Club. Several noted members of this society were imprisoned, while those who had been confined on suspicion of incivisim, were released in great numbers. It now became a measure of personal safety, to be able to declare that one had been imprisoned during Robespierre's tyranny. It was dangerous even to appear like a Jacobin, as several persons were murdered in the streets, by La Jeumsse Parisienne, merely because they wore long coats and short hair. On my first arrival in Paris, there was an immense number of houses on which was painted in large letters, "Propriete Nationale a vendre and on almost all others, the words "Liberie, Egalite, Fraternite, ou la mart? After the death of Robespierre, the three last words were decided to be terrorist, and were expunged every where. At the La Jcunesse Parisiennc were a body of young men of good family, whose relations had suffered death or imprisonment under the reign of terror; and who appeared in open opposition to the Jacobins and the terrorists after the downfall of Robespierre. time of the horrid explosion of the powder magazine in the Plaine de Grenelle, dismay appeared on the countenance of almost every one. By this dreadful catastrophe seven hundred workmen lost their lives; and their widows were inscribed on the books of the section--(I lived in Section des Champs Elisees)--as having lost their husbands on that day, and being thrown on the republic for support. Every misfortune prior to this time h...
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