The executive Directory of France to the Minister at War
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'Citizen minister, it is the intention of the Directory that, from this moment, all the territory of the Republic, comprising in it all the countries united to it, shall be put upon the establishment of the most profound peace; that the number of troops in the Republic be reduced to the simple garrisons of the fortresses; that the service of the Interior be performed solely by the national gendarmerie, and the standing national guards; that the whole surplus of force by sent beyond the frontiers, or united to the triumphant armies: they will complete the defeat of our enemy deaf to the voice of humanity and their own interests [...] With respect to the interior, it is the intention of the Directory, that even the slightest vestige of military regime shall be effaced; it is their intention that the constitutional order shall be uniform throughout the whole of the Republic [...] Haste, citizen minister...to suppress those numerous establishments, those partial administrations which the war had rendered necessary, which a war commencing with enthusiasm has created, without method and without uniformity, and multiplied beyond measure.'