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But he forgot that at the present there are two Vendees the Vendee of the left bank, and the Vendee of the right bank and that, after treating with d'Autichamp, Chatillon, and Suzannet at Pouance, it would still be necessary to negotiate with Frotte, Bourmont and Cadoudal and where? That no one could tell " "Except you, general."
The attempt would lead to a universal uprising, to three or four Vendées, to the villages rising against the towns, all the country up in arms defying the city for its arrogance in attempting to impose such a system upon the country. We have already had too much of Jacobin Utopias! Let us see if some other form of organization will meet the case.
There were thus, in more than thirty departments, intermittent and scattered Vendees. In all the Catholic departments there was a latent Vendee. Had the elections been free during this state of exasperation it is probable that one-half of France would have voted for men of the ancient regime Catholics, Royalists, or, at least, the Monarchists of 1790.
National and religious sentiment suppressed, exploited, offended, to the extend of stirring up insurrections, religious and national. Five or six rural and lasting Vendees take place in Belgium, Switzerland, Piedmont, Venetia, Lombardy, the Roman States and Naples, while fire, pillaging and shooting are employed to repress them.
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