What is "communes"

Usage examples of "communes".

Now, in all these cases, in all the departments, cantons or communes, three classes of persons, at first the relations and allies of the émigrés, next the former nobles and ennobled, and finally the "fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers of persons who, without being ex-nobles or relations of émigrés," nevertheless form a part of the bands or mobs, are declared "personally and civilly responsible" for the violent acts committed.

In the communes in which we are masters we will make the Jacobins of the place demand the abolition of worship, while, in other communes, we will get rid of this authoritatively through our missionary representatives.

We take grain from rich communes and departments, to feed poor communes and departments.

All the communes in Var, and most of those in this department are against us.

In thousands of small, poor, remote communes, he was the only man who could readily read and write.

Like the communes, it had its special laws, its selected chiefs, its assemblies, its own building or, at least, a chamber in common, its banner, coat-of-arms and colors.

Even in some of the communes, many of the inhabitants are reduced to a frightful state of want, feeding on acorns, bran and other unhealthy food.

The Convention, on its side, orders[96] the release, "provisionally, of all ploughmen, day-laborers, reapers, and professional artisans and brewers, in the country and in the market towns and communes, the population of which is not over twelve hundred inhabitants, and who are confined as 'suspects.

Around Dieppe, in the country,[105] entire communes support themselves on herbs and bran.

All communes traversed by a highway are ordered to put rubble and manure on the bad spots and cover the whole way with a layer of soil, so that the horses may drag their loads in spite of the slippery road.

All kinds of abuses, paper-money, the non payment of taxes and claims, the partition in the communes, the sale for nothing of national possessions, has spread so much comfort among the people that the poorer classes, who are the most numerous, have had no dread of increasing their families1 to which they hope some day to leave their fields and render them happy.

The communes, with the help of a storehouse of food and goods must alone be allowed to trade.

They go off six leagues to get a better price and thus the communes which they once supplied are famishing .

Three hundred communes of the department are thus purged after Fructidor.

Communities are ruined by the enormous outlays to which they are exposed: The payment of the deputies to the seneschal's court, the establishment of the burgess guards, guardhouses for this militia, and the purchase of arms, uniforms, and outlays in forming communes and permanent councils.