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[ The letter of the Department ends with this either naïve or ironical expression: "You have now only one conquest to make, that of making the people obey and submit to the law.">[
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[ "Archives Nationales," P7, 3,200. See documents relating to the affair of November 5, 1792, and the events which preceded it or followed it, and among others "Lettres du Directoire et du Procureur-syndic du Departement;" "Pétition et Mémoire pour les Déténus;" "Lettres d'un Témoin," M. de Morant.—Moniteur, X. 356. "Minutes of the meeting de la Municipalité de Caen" and of the "Directoire du Departement," XI.1264, 206. "Rapport de Guadet," and documents of the trial.—"Archives Nationales," ibid. .—"Lettres de M. Cahier," Minister of the Interior, January 26, 1792, of M. C. D. de Pontécoulant, President of the Department Directory, February 3, 1792.—Proclamation by the Directory.]
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[ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3200. Letter of September 26, 1791.—Letter found on one of the arrested gentlemen. "A cowardly bourgeoisie, directors in cellars, a clubbist (Jacobin) municipality, waging the most illegal war against us.">[
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[ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3200. Letter of the Attorney-General of Bayeux, May 14, 1792, and of the Directory of Bayeux, May 21, 1792.—At Bayeux, likewise; the refugees are denounced and in peril. According to their verified statements they scarcely amounted to one hundred. "Several nonjuring priests, indeed, are found among them. (But) the rest, for the most part, consist of the heads of families who are known to reside habitually in neighboring districts, and who have been forced to leave their homes after having been, or fearing to become, victims of religious intolerance or of the threats of factions and of brigands.">[
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[ Lenin has probably read this during his studies in Paris and maybe been confirmed in his plan to create a new elite, an elite he eventually began to make use of from 1917 and onwards, an elite which continues to rule Russia and a great part of the world today. (SR.)]