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Examples
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Losing the moral compass: torture and guerre revolutionnaire in the Algerian War.
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The noblesse, and others from thence who have been arrested, as soon as it was known that they were Lillois, were treated with peculiar rigour; * and an _armee revolutionnaire, _** with the Guillotine for a standard, has lately harrassed the town and environs of Lisle, as though it were a conquered country.
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We have a tribunal revolutionnaire here, with its usual attendant the
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The noblesse, and others from thence who have been arrested, as soon as it was known that they were Lillois, were treated with peculiar rigour; * and an _armee revolutionnaire, _** with the Guillotine for a standard, has lately harrassed the town and environs of Lisle, as though it were a conquered country.
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-- All, therefore, that can be obtained is, a promise to have us removed to Amiens in a short time; and I understand the detenus are there treated with consideration, and that no tribunal revolutionnaire has yet been established.
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** The armee revolutionnaire was first raised by order of the
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Marat with contempt; and I perfectly remember even Danton, one of the members of the Committee of Salut Publique, accusing him of being a contre revolutionnaire.
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We have a tribunal revolutionnaire here, with its usual attendant the
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-- All, therefore, that can be obtained is, a promise to have us removed to Amiens in a short time; and I understand the detenus are there treated with consideration, and that no tribunal revolutionnaire has yet been established.
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-- _ "Toujours en menageant, comme la prunelle de ses yeux, le gouvernement revolutionnaire."
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