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  • The committee of public safety disbanded the revolutionary army, diminished the power of the sectionary committees, and obliged the commune to appear at the bar of the convention, and give thanks for the arrest and punishment of the conspirators, its accomplices.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • General Carteaux, on the other hand, marched at the head of some troops against the sectionary army of the south; he defeated its force, pursued it to Marseilles, entered the town after it, and Provence would have been brought into subjection like

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • Every indigent citizen was allowed forty sous a day, to enable him to be present at the sectionary meetings.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • Aubry, etc.; they formed in the assembly the nucleus of the sectionary party.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

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