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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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On April 16, the French National Convention, upon Couthon's report, adopted modifications to the decree against former nobles and ex-generals, exempting long-residing foreigners and certain marriages, while including those who usurped or assumed noble titles.
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April 16.
Upon the report of Couthon the following modifications of the decree against the ci-devant nobles and ex-generals were adopted.
Are excepted from the law of the 15th inst. all foreigners residing in France for 20 years, and all those who having resided 6 years have married a French woman not of the ex-nobility.
Those are included in the law who without being nobles according to the ideas and rules of the ancient government, have usurped or purchased titles or privileges of nobility, or those who may have assumed false titles.
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France
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April 16
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modifications adopted: exceptions for long-residing foreigners and certain marriages; inclusions for those who usurped or assumed noble titles.
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The National Convention adopted modifications to the decree against ci-devant nobles and ex-generals, exempting foreigners residing in France for 20 years or those married to non-noble French women after 6 years, and including those who usurped, purchased, or assumed noble titles without ancient nobility.