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1395x1860 Général Joseph Marie Servan de Gerbey, Minister of War, Marechal of France, Commander of l’Armée du Centre, Patriot This is a farce, and an abortion of justice. The counter-revolutionary forces move against us once again; first, the Bretons and Rochambeau. Then, Lafayette. Now, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade--a man who claims to be a Citizen, perhaps in the same way Louis-Philippe was?--comes to the spotlight, seeking to overthrow our great Republic, and to establish in its place a blasted hellscape of Bacchic orgies and vice. As Minister of War and Marechal of France, I declare the Marquis de Sade's appointment to the Army of the Pyrenees over that of Charles François Dumouriez, a loyal general and servant to the republic, to be undone. I expect the loyal men on the Spanish border will see this man for what he is, and will turn their backs on his treachery. I will not even address the issue of this catamite taking control of the Army of the Center; such an idea is, simply, laughable.
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A RICH WHITE MAN posted:
Joachim Murat, Minister of the Marine, Admiral of the French Navy. I believe an investigation will clear up any and all doubts. If Joseph Fouche can clear his name of these alleged crimes then I will follow him as the rightful President of France.
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President de Sade I hereby recognize and confirm Monsieur Robespierre and Admiral Murat, and General Ney's appointment of Marechal of France is a fine thing. As a Libertine, I will allow a great deal of freedom to the nation's cabinet and military leaders to affect the ideas they think best suited to solving France's problems. Marshal Ney, Austria's armies are on the move, raising Italy to their flag, no matter what occurs here in France, it's up to you to stop them at the gates. But remember, it is the Kings of Italy who are our enemies, not the common people. I urge you to establish a true Italian republic, representing all Italian people, and urge them to begin arming themselves and resisting the resumption of monarchical dictatorship being foisted upon them by the so-called Holy Roman Empire. Admiral Murat, it is up to you to end the blockade that is strangling France! Formulate your plan and by Odin's raven, I shall see that your plan shall be carried out. Monsieur Robespierre, you have the most difficult task of all. The legislature must take up the cause of liberty. Should the accusations against M. Fouche not be investigated, whether you agree with my accusation or not? Surely this is a matter for the Minister of Justice, who has survived several administrations, and could be considered neutral? Let us have an investigation, I shall not raise a weapon against any Frenchman until it is complete, composed entirely of a few persons loyal to Minister Duport-Dutertre, who he knows and trusts intimately to tell him the truth. If it is found that my votes were not thrown away, then I shall step down as President and succumb to whatever punishment that the government deems suitable, but if the preponderance of evidence suggests that voter fraud was committed which stripped me of the Presidency, then let M. Fouche be the one to step down. I will not fight him, nor the crippled Gerbey, nor the Armee du Centre who I have grown to know and love so well during my time with them. Let us submit to justice, let us not collapse into civil war while surrounded by enemies! If the first shot be fired, let France know that it was not I who fired it, but the Breton slime who has slithered into this position through lies and deceit.
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I wish nothing more than for justice to be done. The Committee of Public Safety stands ready to assist the Minister of Justice in his investigations in whatever way they can.
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248x260 I hope this matter is resolved amicably, and whoever is the legitimate president will still accept the terms of Picardies reintroduction into France proper.
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I appreciate the vote of confidence in my administration of the Ministry of Justice and I will gladly pursue this matter with all the resources at my disposal. In fact, I'd like to propose to the assembly the Bureau of Elective Investigations Act, which will assign additional funds to the police for the coming season and for all future election seasons, so that these transgressions against democracy may be better investigated and prevented both in the present and the future. Also, reward and protection will be offered to any citizen willing to offer evidence or information concerning election fraud and harassment, with the caveat that wasting the Bureau's time with falsehoods will lead to a fine for wasting public resources and imprisonment if this was done in ill-intent, such as to frame a political rival. This act would be complementary of the Just Elections Act of last season. Thank you for your attention, Marguerite-Louis-François Duport-Dutertre Ministre de la Justice Tiger-King of the Great Underground Empire
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1395x1860 Général Joseph Marie Servan de Gerbey, Minister of War, Marechal of France, Commander of l’Armée du Centre, Patriot
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quote:Farewell to Tuffin
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# ? Dec 12, 2012 18:50 |
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Let's nip this one in the bud right now: please don't post chatlogs in the thread. If you want to claim someone has said something, you need to do just that - claim someone has said something. Thanks!
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# ? Dec 12, 2012 19:16 |
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<CVortex> so in this chatlog I hereby appoint you President, King, and Emperor of France <tatankatonk> wow thanks <CVortex> because you're the smartest, and the coolest <tatankatonk> that sounds about right <CVortex> also the handsomest... <tatankatonk> Cvortex no! we've talked about this <CVortex> I must have you! <tatankatonk> Our love can never be, Cvortex! I am a simple admiral, and you are a GM...it can't be...
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# ? Dec 12, 2012 19:34 |
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411x478 President Joseph Fouche Note by president joseph fouche posted:Welp i'm a fucking idiot. I thought i could trust people, though i could work with them, thought i could use reason. Fouche kills himself, i'm out.
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WhitemageofDOOM posted:
As Minister of the Interior and qualified medical doctor, I declare that the President has clearly gone insane. Any and all decrees thereof are null and void.
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Duke Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie Duke of the Kingdom of Breizh/Brittany under Queen Mari Tereza I Charleza ar Vourboned "Open Musings of An Open Mind: On Recent Events posted:Oh, who could have foreseen what would happen if Sade was given an army? Oh right, everyone. Let the world also note that for the 20th time in a row Robespierre has backed Sade fully. Perhaps their next big reveal will be that of their not so secret queer love affair...
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411x478 President Joseph Fouche Gorgo Primus posted:
Actions for the turn 1) Haunt tuffin 2) Haunt tuffin 3) Haunt tuffin 4) Haunt tuffin 5) Haunt tuffin 6) Haunt tuffin
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248x260 I have always had reserved, but amicable dealings with De Sade, I welcome him as President, and am looking forward to working with him, Fouche may have been a demon, but his plan for the reincorporation of Picardie was sound, De Sade, in the interests of lasting peace, please accept that dogs one sensible proposal.
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200x273 Gustaf af Wetterstedt Swedish Ambassador My friends. The great experiment in America failed. It failed thanks to it not being refined and thought out well enough. A new experiment is taking place here in France, one that is facing opposition from every turn, and facing great problems as well. The debate of the necessity and validity of this experiment is abound, but as my dear friend Eminent Professor Hector would say, a experiment must be taken in honest faith and you must closely study not just the results of it, but the way to said results. I thus arranged for a investigation of the great experiment, being the lover of Science and Humanitarian ideals that I am, and found out some distressing facts of vote rigging, in the favour of Marquis de Sade! Further investigations are pending, and I don't wish to implicate the Marquis of being guilty quite yet, but I have clear evidence of that Marquis de Sade vote been greatly conflated. I applaud your own decision for a internal commission to oversee your elections, it is a shame that a foreign dignitary would have to uncover such corruption. I will turn over the results of my investigation the French people and government immediately.
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411x478 President Joseph Fouche President fouche final letter to de gerbey posted:I am sorry, everything is my fault, i should have listened to you.
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248x260 I call for all radicals, enrages, jacobins etc to form a Unity government, while this crisis is occurring. It is perhaps, in my humble opinion, sensible for a constitutional change in the future, perhaps these allegations of voting fraud are due to the powers the president is afforded.
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# ? Dec 12, 2012 22:42 |
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General Jeane Bernadotte, Armee du Rhin. While these recent political changes are saddening and disturbing, I care more about the outward integrity of the French nation. As if the Breton disaster was not insult enough, I hope whoever is president will not allow our nation to suffer further humiliation in the form of conquest by Austria. My army of the Rhine stands poised to move, in concert with the armee du centre, to meet this threat. However, my armies alone will not be sufficient, and I worry that these recent politically motivated changes in leadership will necessitate, for personal reasons, the use of these armies for purposes other than the defense of the republic. As such, I call on all citizens of France to ensure an orderly transition to a post-Fouche administration, and urge all parties to support my strategic plan for the destruction of the invading Austrian army. Alone I cannot be assured of victory, and require the support of my fellows to rid ourselves of this foreign threat. Do not allow our internal dissent to result in the loss of yet another integral part of our great nation!
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279x407 Roux has had a new portrait made, with his adorable dog georges, the Picard weather has done him well the past months, and he is more physically fit than ever before!
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Louis Cahnon, Freelance Detective and General Fancy Man About This Breton weather did not agree with Louis Cahnon, the world's only freelance detective and general fancy man about Nantes. But it was damn better than the weather in Paris, if the Breton newspapers were right; certainly the worst a man could catch in Nantes was a head cold, while in Paris he was liable lose his head, if he was not careful. But, still, Louis had fond memories of Paris- more specifically of his office. Oh, how he missed his office; never had there been a more fancy or elegant office in all of history. It had, had everything: a desk, two draws full of whiskey, another draw full of more whiskey, and a hat stand for his various fancy hats. Louis winced at the thought of his hats, his heart full of despair; those radical hooligans had probably dented one of his hats while they had been running around the city doing as they pleased. Still, Nantes wasn't too bad; he'd even managed to get a new office, thanks to the money he'd made on his last job. Nasty business that, some fellow who went by the name the Demonologist. Had a thing for sulfur and also imps, and seemed hellbent on combining the two. Last Louis had heard, he was dead, which just went to show that God was indeed vengeful. Louis carefully nailed the last sign he had to the door of the building, exhaling in satisfaction. He hadn't forgotten what had brought him to Brittany, no he hadn't. He still had a job to do. He walked away whistling one of those fancy Breton battle songs. Translation: MISSING. A cat of much worth. Answers to Fifi. Please contact Louis Cahnon with information, fancy man about Nantes.
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# ? Dec 13, 2012 00:17 |
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Saint-Just Citizens of France, I urge calm. Are things unsettled now? Indeed, they are unsettled. Does this mean we have no government? Does this mean the Revolution is dead? It does not! The National Assembly still sits and the Revolution lives! We will persevere. Are these the first difficulties we have faced? You know they are not! Are we to emulate the Americans, and fall apart at the slightest sign of trouble? We are men made of sterner stuff than this! The danger is real. This is true. Enemy armies are on the march, meaning to destroy us. In Brittany, a criminal gang of nobles seek to defy us. Haiti is in revolt against us. In Picardy, our laws are defied by those who would upturn civilization. In Gaulle, Napoleon and Brissot flirt with independence. And in Paris, our newly elected president lost his reason and committed self murder when DeSade made accusations against him. We recognize all this. We recognize that we are faced with a sea of troubles, and indeed, the temptation is to despair. But we must not despair, citizens of France. We must never doubt the rightness of our cause. The strength of France lies not in the leaders of France, or the guns of France. The strength of France lies in you, its people. And so long as the people of France do not lose their will and desire for freedom, France will prevail. The Republic can only die if we let it die! It can not be defeated by outside forces! We will gain the victory if we try for it, for it is the natural right of man to be free, and to escape the shackles of tyranny. The oppressors and tyrants know they can not oppress forever. The Bretons, the Austrians, the British, they know their days are numbered. They know that someday the people will have enough of their tyranny, and will demand from them the basic rights of man that Reason gives us. The right to live or die by our own warrant; not the whim of a tyrant. The right of liberty, to live as we wish and decide as we wish, so long as we do not harm others; and the right to own land and property of our own, to, through our industry, better ourselves and enjoy the fruits of our work. These are our rights, and what's more, they're not the rights of Frenchmen alone, but rights granted to the whole world. The Austrians say we're rabble rousers, demagogues, who would overthrow the entire order and bring about anarchy, but I say, we're merely seeking to return to an older order, before kings were raised up to rule over us. The Bretons would say that we're tyrants, seeking to destroy them, their culture and their faith. But really, we just seek to free them. I will not deny that, under the old government, inappropriate tariffs were passed against Brittany. They were removed, though, and we shall not to something so foolish again. The Bretons must know; the Breton people must know, that we will respect their rights; that they shall have the same liberties as all of France. That they shall be able to worship as they please, and live as they please. It is however clear from recent events that our constitution is flawed. Therefore, I am calling for a Constitutional Convention, to study the old Constitution, decide what parts work and what do not, and write a new, better Constitution. Meanwhile, while the Convention does its work, I call on the National Assembly to pass an Emergency Decree, setting up a Committee of Five, chosen by the Legislature, which shall have sole and superior Executive Power. It shall have the right to appoint ministers and generals, propose budgets, enter into treaties, and approve or deny legislation passed by the Assembly as a whole.
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Epicurius posted:Saint-Just Robespierre An excellent proposal! The old constitution is fatally flawed, and is indeed one of my great regrets of life. Let us wash it away in a wave of inspiration! I enthusiastically support this proposal!
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Epicurius posted:Saint-Just I heartily agree with this proposal. Mistakes have been made, and there is nothing more human than to learn from them and continue. I say more, the Committee should include members of each of the five largest political parties of France, so that no voice may go unheard in its chambers, even the Bretons are welcome into such assembly if they will acknowledge their part in our family. One is the greatest number, and an unified France can do miracles for humanity. Let the tempers calm, let us think and converse as brothers, let us build the future. Your comrade-in-arms, Marguerite-Louis-François Duport-Dutertre Ministre de la Justice Tiger-King of the Great Underground Empire
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Duke Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie Duke of the Kingdom of Breizh/Brittany under Queen Mari Tereza I Charleza ar Vourboned Yet Another Speech to the Breton Nation posted:Another day in France, another coup attempt, another Constitution. Republicanism is instability incarnate.
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# ? Dec 13, 2012 01:10 |
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THE BATSHIT FUCKING ANGER OF FATHER DUCHESNE By God, what a right fucking mess everything has become right now. Proves what happens when you place a nation in the hands of inept manchildren. It's been two years since the Revolution gave its first kick and lo and behold! The men and women of France still starve on the streets, the French Army is still a fucking joke, the reactionaries and traitors are still very much alive and kicking (bar one or two laudable efforts at cleansing the nation of the very worst of these scum), and hey, THERE'S STILL SOME FAT FUCK CALLING HIMSELF OUR KING. Your dear father Duchesne has but one suggestion to fix this shitpail of a country: HEY JACOBINS, NOBODY GIVES A RAT'S ASS ABOUT WHATEVER RETARDED DIFFERENCES YOU CLAIM TO HAVE AMONG YOU. YOU ARE ALL THE SAME, STOP ROLLING ARMIES OVER IT YOU STUPID FUCKS. Whatever sorry ass excuse for a Republic that has somehow managed to survive the stupidity of Lafayette, the incompetence of Robespierre and the sudden bout of melancholy of Fouche, now stands threatened on multiple fronts. Could it be too much to ask to whatever prissypants who's currently in charge (and those who aren't, as well) to focus on killing reactionaries and fighting starvation instead of engaging in yet another hissyfit over whatever stupid reason you think justifies yet another siege of Paris? Fuck it. Let's take our minds off this indescribable mess by returning yet again to Le Père Duchesne's "Las Pages Drolés": "And if that rabble in Paris doesn't get its act together, I'll be making the whole of France pick up the bill"
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SexyBlindfold posted:
Joachim Murat, Minister of the Marine, Admiral of the French Navy. Hear! Hear! I urge all in France to follow the example of this man; victory means laying aside our differences in the spirit of cooperation to end the Breton rebellion and to end the chaos in Paris. Jacobins unite! Many may disagree with President De Sade on many fronts, however we must lay aside these concerns if he is truly the legitimate President of France. We must work together in these trying times and not against each other. The Justice Ministers investigation once and for all shall clear up who the true President is and I shall follow him, will you?
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Olympe de Gouges Gentlemen of France, thanks to the intrepid investigations of a certain master detective, the Sons and Daughters of Justice have discovered that the infernal demonologist Berbiguier was responsible for the dastardly poisoning of the grain to the poor and hungry of the Cour des Miracles. This injustice will not stand! Which, thankfully, is why some vigilant citizens have confronted him for his crimes. The Society of the Friends of the Truth, as an arm of Justice, proclaims that we have nothing to hide and are ready and willing to aid all who are downtrodden. We petition the provisional/emergency/current government to allow us to once again help the poor of Paris. We also ask of you to please allow the Humanitarian Society of Eir to operate in France, whereupon groups such as the Sororitas Caritas may be able to work with them to aid the sick and wounded of our country during this lamentable war.
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Joachim Murat, Minister of the Marine, Admiral of the French Navy. I'm going to stay neutral on the subject of the Emergency Decree I'll respect whatever decision the assembly makes. I would like to add that I will pledge to loyally continue my duties as Minister of the Marine for whomever the assembly decides is the rightful ruler of France (or rulers), assuming of course that they would graciously grant the position to me.
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Maximo Roboto posted:
279x407 Old Enemy, I am already helping the poor of Paris as we speak, send people to the Tuileries Palace, they will get food.
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191x250 quote:Von Horst!
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279x407 Friends, Comrades, in the next months I will be writing a plan of agricultural reform and food redistribution, as an Enragés this is a matter close to my heart, I hope you will earnestly look at my proposal. Any Scientists who wish to help me, please contact me through the usual means. While they may be our Enemies, I have heard of an agricultural revolution stirring in Great Britain, perhaps we should have our own.
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President de Sade As the upcoming legislative session arrives, I wish to make something clear. Though I firmly believe that I am the President, it would seem Saint-Just and the legislature have chosen to dissolve that position with their passing of an emergency law, thus rendering unnecessary any contest for the presidency, and forestalling any warfare on the part of those who might keep me from it. C'est la vie, as a Republican I will not contest this decision, and in fact look forward to the new opportunities it affords. I did not seek the Presidency for myself, but rather to prevent it from passing into the hands of false radicals or worse. A new constitution for which there has as yet been no debate whatsoever, however. Who is writing the new constitution? Who is debating it? Who will be placed on this committee of five? By what methods will they be chosen? In a Republican government, the manner of the government must be overseen by the people themselves. One could not elect legislators and then allow the legislators to simply vote themselves to be a new nobility for example. If we are going to have a new constitution, should not there be a new election to the legislature before the constitution itself is voted upon? Let the people themselves know that they will be deciding their future. With the collapse of the Girondins and the Orleanists, due more to fear than anything else, can we truly say we have an accurate representation of the will of the people of our remaining legislators? Republicanism must represent the will of the people, to claim that justification for government and then to claim to know what is best for the people, better in fact than they themselves know, is hardly any different from the manner of monarchs. I would not have us elect a new monarch, nor a farce of a Republic that is not truly Free and Representative of the people. The monarchy has been ejected from France, and I agree with Saint-Just and Robespierre, in fact I go far beyond them, that the revolution has not proceeded far enough, that we must destroy the Catholic Church, that the Breton people must be ruined, that Austria, Prussia, and the Pope himself must be toppled and dragged through the streets of Paris to spend the rest of their lives licking the feet of every leper and orphan who passes them by. I must also take this moment to speak out against the appointment of General Gerbey to any higher position than his current generalship. He is the least trusted member of the military by his fellow generals, and to reward that lack of trust, especially in light of his relationship to the late madman Fouche is madness. Will we truly consider granting him control over the military bureaucracy after he was already removed from that position before, not for his radical beliefs but rather for his open grasping for power and constant intrigues? If he is to gain a higher position in our military in the future, let it be a reward for having achieved something of note, such as actually marching his Army of the Pyrenees into Spain, or moving to cut off the Austrians who march now towards Paris, or the Bretons, or the King-claimant who marches through Bordeaux, or any other number of France's enemies rather than camping outside of Paris. Let him consider it an order from his President.
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Olympe de GougesStalingrad posted:Old Enemy, I am already helping the poor of Paris as we speak, send people to the Tuileries Palace, they will get food. Very well, I direct the Daughters of Justice to work with the Enrages at the Tuileries Palace to distribute food to the Parisian poor.
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To Louis Cahnon, Freelance Detective Dear Sir, It was with great satisfaction I read about your recent exploits in Paris, viz. the apprehension of the most heinous criminal Berbiguier, whom I had the misfortune of meeting and placing my trust in during my time as Oberst to the King's Guard. After your string of renowned accomplishments it is with great delight that I extend an invitation to you to accompany me in inspections of the troops presently under my command, whom I am drilling in the arts of war. Although a little "rough around the edges", I maintain that this force of "Cambions" are a most patriotic batch of Frenchmen, interested in only the success of this Republican experiment we are engaged in (and which I have recently begun to see the superiority of). I await your favourable reply. Yours sincerely, Big Chief Running Bear Commander in chief of the Whodathunkit Tribe, previously of Texas
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279x407 Legislature, hear me, I have a plan for agricultural reform, I believe it will make our food shortages slowly disappear! 1. We will begin using a four field crop rotation system, the system works, thusly, four fields are growing, wheat, barley, turnips and clover respectively, the next year the clover field will grow wheat, the wheat field barley, etc etc, in a cycle. The reasons for this are three fold: Turnips can be used as a crop for animals, if we grow turnips, we will have meat all year round! Clover through some as yet unknown system, restores the soil, currently we leave soil fallow (without crops) for a whole year before reusing it in areas where crop rotation is not used, monstrous!, the work of men in Britain and Flanders shows us this does not need to be the case, we can have a huge reduction in fallow fields, and thus a large increase in food production! While meat all year round is excellent, it also means we get manure all year round, this will also stop us leaving our fields fallow! This is but the first step We need better Land Enclosure, and Land reform, I call on a reorganization of farms, the enclosure of these farms with hedgerows and fences, and the continued seizure of previous church lands for the use of farming! Open field farming is a relic of the past, from a bourgeois perspective, enclosed farming will allow the farm owners more control over their crop, from an Enragés it allows the collective workers more control over their crop, either way, it is a relic of monarchy and nobility, open farming must end! These 2 small changes will have large effects, so I put to you legislature: Land Reform Land Seizure Crop Rotation! I deem this the Agricultural revolution act
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Duke Gower I am confused as to why the party of the rural peasants is arguing for land enclosure. It is true, after practising it the production of my estates has increased, but the peasants themselves seemed to dislike it. Many of them did not take up fishing as instructed, and were most displeased that they were unable to farm the lands they had previously. Of course the ones that haven't moved on now have starved to death, along with their families. Such is the price of progress.
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Incy posted:Duke Gower 1. The Enragés have always been a party of progress, and a party of the Sans-Culottes, not a party of specifically rural peasants. 2. Land Seizure will increase the land available for farming 3. In Picardie which is autonomous, where the Enragés have control, Land Enclosure will not be used to give land to any one man, to control and use for his own profit, workers collectives will control the enclosed lands in communion with each other. This is to increase food production for all French, but there are ways for this to be done without detriment to the farmer.
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Duke Gower You misunderstand, I am commending you. Those that stand in the way of progress need to be brushed aside.
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OOC: Turn Preview
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