: "Genie du Christianisme," part 4,
book II., notes on the exhumations at St. Denis taken by a monk, an
eye-witness. Destruction, August 6 and 8, 1793, of fifty-one monuments.
Exhumation of bodies, October 12 and 25, 1793.--Camille Boursier, "Essai
sur la Terreur en Anjou," p.223. (Testimony of Bordier-Langlois.) "I
saw the head of our good Duke Rene, deposited in the chapel of St.
Bernardin, in the Cordeliers at Angers, tossed like a ball by some
laborers from one to the other."]
[Footnote 41154: R. Chantelauze, "Louis XVII.," (according to
unpublished documents). This book, free of declamation and composed
according to the critical method, sets this question at rest.]
[Footnote 41155: Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionnaire," III.,
285.--Campardon, "Hist. du Tribunal Revolutionnaire de Paris," I., 306.
Brochet, one of the jury, was formerly a lackey.]
[Footnote 41156: The above simply conveys the sense of the document,
which is here given in the original: "Si tu n'est pas toute seulle et
que le compagnion soit a travailier tu peus ma chaire amie venir voir
juger 24 mesieurs tous si-deven president on conselier au parlement
de Paris et de Toulouse. Je t' ainvite a prendre quelque choge aven de
venir parcheque nous naurons pas fini de 3 hurres. Je tembrase ma chere
amie et epouge." (TR).]
[Footnote 41157: Wallon, III., 402.]
[Footnote 41158: Campardon, II., 350.--Cf. Causeries du Lundi," II.,
164. Saint-Beuve's comment on the examination. "Andre Chenier, natife
de Constantinoble....son frere vice-consulte en Espagne. "Remark the
questions on his health and correspondence and the cock-and-bull story
about the 'maison a cotte.' "--They ask him where his servant was on
the 10th of August, 1792, and he replies that he could not tell. "A lui
represente qua lepoque de cette journee que touts les bons citoyent ny
gnoroit point leurs existence et quayant enttendue batte la generale
cettait un motife de plus pour reconnoitre tous les bons citoyent et
le motife au quelle il setait employee pour sauvee la Republique. A
repondue quil avoit dite l'exacte veritee. A lui demandee quel etoit
dite l'exacte veritee--a repondue que cetoit toutes ce qui etoit cy
dessue."]
CHAPTER II. FOOD AND PROVISIONS.
I. Economical Complexity of Food Chain.
Complexity of the economical operation by which articles of
prime necessity reach the consumer.--Conditions of the
operation.--Available resources.-
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