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Of this number were Regnault de Beaucaron, Froudiere, Girardin, and Vaublanc.
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He is a man likewise of first-rate abilities - M. de Narbonne says perhaps superior to Vaublanc - and of very uncommon firmness and integrity of character.
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Others, Vaublanc for example, thought there was more show than substance.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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[271] The central government indeed had less part in this species of persecution than the Préfets and other local authorities, though within their own departments Clarke and Vaublanc set an example which others were not slow to follow.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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Re-affirming the principle laid down in the Constitution of 1795 and repeated in the Charta, Vaublanc proposed that a fifth part of the
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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Vaublanc, old servants of Napoleon now turned ultra-Royalists, were eager to make themselves the instruments of the Count of Artois, and to carry into the work of government the enthusiasm of revenge which had already found voice in the elections.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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Vaublanc, the Minister of coercion, was removed from office.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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The ex-préfet Vaublanc, to whom the framing of the measure was entrusted, though he imagined himself purged from the traditions of Napoleonism, could conceive of no relation between the executive and the legislative power but that which exists between a substance and its shadow.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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The language in which Vaublanc introduced his measure was grotesquely candid.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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They called to mind the means proposed by Vaublanc to establish his system in this colony, and they were surprised that when the Directory had punished that conspirator, its Agent should propose the same measures, should prescribe them, should exact their prompt and full execution.
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