The rest of the city’s inhabitants Collot seems hardly to have considered among the population. “The population once evacuated,” he wrote to Couthon explaining the same idea, “it will be easy to make the city disappear, and to say with truth, ‘Lyons is no more.’ ” Even Collot d’Herbois can hardly have proposed to put to death the sixty-odd thousand whom he deemed unworthy to transport. What he thought, if he thought at all clearly on this point, is not known.
The rest of the city’s inhabitants Collot seems hardly to have considered among the population. “The population once evacuated,” he wrote to Couthon explaining the same idea, “it will be easy to make the city disappear, and to say with truth, ‘Lyons is no more.’ ” Even Collot d’Herbois can hardly have proposed to put to death the sixty-odd thousand whom he deemed unworthy to transport. What he thought, if he thought at all clearly on this point, is not known.
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