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Updated: May 10, 2025
This constitutes a loss to France of 146,000 Frenchmen, and not those of the least importance gentlemen, army and navy officers, members of parliaments, priests, prominent men of all classes, conscientious Catholics, liberals of 1789, Feuillantists of the Legislative assembly, and Constitutionalists of the years III and V. Worse still, through their poverty or hostility abroad, they are a discredit or even a danger for France, as formerly with the Protestants driven out of the country by Louis XIV. To these 146,000 exiled Frenchmen add 200,000 or 300,000 others, residents, but semi-proscribed: First, those nearly related and allied to each emigre, excluded by the law from "every legislative, administrative, municipal and judicial function," and even deprived of the elective vote.
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