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indulgence。〃



'54' Schmidt; 〃Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Fran?aise;〃 II。;

248; 249。  (Agent's reports; Frimaire 8; year 111。) 〃The prosecution

of Carrier is approved by the public; likewise the condemnation of the

former revolutionary committee called the 〃BonnetRouge。〃 Ten of its

members are condemned to twenty years in irons。  The public is

overjoyed。〃 … Ibid。; (Frimaire 9); 〃The people rushed in crowds to the

square of the old commune building to see the members of the former

revolutionary committee of the Bonnet…Rouge sections; who remained

seated on the bench until six o'clock; in the light of flambeaux。

They had to put up with many reproaches and much humiliation。〃 … 〃Un

Sejour en France;〃 286; (June 6; 1795)。  〃I have just been interrupted

by a loud noise and cries under my window; I heard the names Scipio

and Solon distinctly pronounced in a jeering and insulting tone of

voice。  I sent Angelique to see what was the matter and she tells me

that it is a crowd of children following a shoemaker of the

neighborhood who was member of a revolutionary committee。  。  。  and

had called himself Scipio Solon。  As he had been caught in several

efforts at stealing he could no longer leave his shop without being

reviled for his robberies and hooted at under his Greek and Roman

names。〃



'55' Barère; 〃Mémoires;〃 II。; 324。



'56' Montieur; XXII。; 742。  (Report by Cambon; Frimaire 6; year II。)

??Ibid。; 22。  … Report by Lindet; September 20; 1794): 〃 The land and

navy forces; war and other services; deprive agricultural pursuits and

other professions of more than one million five hundred thousand

citizens。  It would cost the Republic less to support six million men

in all the communes。〃 … 〃Le Departement des Affaires étrangères;〃 by

Fr。  Masson; 382。  (According to 〃Paris à la fin du dix…huitieme

siecle;〃 by Pujoulx; year IX。): 〃At Paris alone there are more than

thirty thousand (government) clerks; six thousand at the most do the

necessary writing; the rest cut away quills; consume ink and blacken

paper。  In old times; there were too many clerks in the bureaux

relatively to the work; now; there are three times as many; and there

are some who think that there are not enough。〃



'57' 〃Souvenirs de M。 Hua;〃 a parliamentary advocate; p。96。  (A very

accurate picture of the small town Coucy…le…Chateau; in Aisne; from

1792 to 1794。) … 〃Archives des Affaires étrangères;〃 vol。334。  (Letter

of the agents; Thionville; Vent?se 24; year II。) The district of

Thionville is very patriotic; submits to the maximum and requisitions;

but not to the laws prohibiting outside worship and religious

assemblies。  〃The apostles of Reason preached in vain to the people;

telling them that; up to this time; they had been deceived and that

now was the time to throw off the yoke of prejudice: 'we are willing

to believe that; thus far; we have been deceived; but who will

guarantee us that you will not deceive us in your turn?'〃



'58' Lagros: 〃 La Révolution telle qu'elle est。〃 (Unpublished

correspondence of the committee of Public Safety; I。; 366。  Letter of

Prieur de la Marne。) 〃 In general; the towns are patriotic; but the

rural districts are a hundred leagues removed from the Revolution。  。

。  。  Great efforts will be necessary to bring them up to the level of

the Revolution。〃



'59' According to the statistics of 1866 (published in 1869) a

district of one thousand square kilometres contains on an average;

thirty…three communes above five hundred souls; twenty…three from five

hundred to one thousand; seventeen bourgs and small towns from one

thousand to five thousand; and one average town; or very large one;

about five thousand。  Taking into account the changes that have taken

place in seventy years; one may judge from these figures of the

distribution of the population in 1793。  This distribution explains

why; instead of forty…five thousand revolutionary committees; there

were only twenty…one thousand five hundred。



'60' 〃Souvenirs des M。 Hua;〃 179。  〃This country (Coucy…le…Chateau)

protected by its bad roads and still more by its nullity; belonged to

that small number in which the revolutionary turmoil was least felt。〃



'61' Among other documents of use in composing this picture I must

cite; as first in importance; the five files containing all the

documents referring to the mission of the representative Albert; in

Aisne and Marne。  (Vent?se and Germinal; year III。) Nowhere do we find

more precise details of the sentiments of the peasant; of the common

laborer and of the lower bourgeois from 1792 to 1795。  (Archives

Nationales; D。  §§ 2 to 5。)



'62' Daubari; 〃La Demagogie en 1793;〃 XII。  (The expression of an old

peasant; near Saint…émilion; to M。 Vatel engaged in collecting

information on the last days of Petion; Guadet and Buzot。)



'63' Archives Nationales; D。  § I。; 5。  (Petition of Claude Defert;

miller; and national agent of Turgy。) Numbers of mayors; municipal

officers; national agents; administrators and notables of districts

and departments solicit successors; and Albert compels many of them to

remain in office。  … (Joint letter of the entire municipality of

Landreville; letter of Charles; stone…cutter; mayor of Trannes; Claude

Defert; miller; national agent of Turgy; of Elegny; meat…dealer; of a

wine…grower; municipal official at Merrex; etc。) The latter writes:

〃The Republic is great and generous; it does not desire that its

children should ruin themselves in attending to its affairs; on the

contrary; its object is to give salaried (emolumentaires) places to

those who have nothing to live on。  … Another; Mageure; appointed

mayor of Bar…sur…Seine writes; Pluvi?se 29; year III。: 〃I learned

yesterday that some persons of this community would like to procure

for me the insidious gift of the mayoralty;〃 and he begs Albert to

turn aside this cup。



'64' 〃Souvenirs de M。 Hua;〃 178…205。  〃M。 P。。。  ; mayor of Crépy…au…

Mont; knew how to restrain some low fellows who would have been only

too glad to revolutionize his village。  。  。  。  And yet he was a

republican。  。  。  。  One day; speaking of the revolutionary system;

he said: 'They always say that it will not hold on; meanwhile; it

sticks like lice。' 〃 … 〃A general assembly of the inhabitants of Coucy

and its outskirts was held; in which everybody was obliged to undergo

an examination; stating his name; residence; birth…place; present

occupation; and what he had done during the Revolution。〃 Hua avoids

telling that he had been a representative in the Legislative Assembly;

a recognized fact in the neighborhood: 〃Not a voice was raised to

compromise me。〃 … Ibid。; 183。  (Reply of the Coucy Revolutionary

Committee to that of Meaux。)



'65' 〃Frochot;〃 by Louis Passy; 175。  (Letter of Pajot; member of the

Revolutionary committee of Troyes; Vendémiaire; year III。) … Archives

Nationales; F。7; 4421。  (Register of the Revolutionary committee of

Troyes。) Brumaire 27; year II。  Incarceration of various suspects;

among others of 〃Lerouge; former lawyer; under suspicion of having

constantly and obstinately refused revolutionary offices。〃 Also; a

person named Corps; for 〃having refused the presidency of the district

tribunal at the time of its organization; under the pretext of

consulting the Chambre des Comptes; also for being the friend of

suspects; and for having accepted office only after the Revolution had

assumed an imposing character。〃



'66' Marcelin Boudet; 〃Les conventionnels d'Auvergne;〃 161。

(Justification of Etienne Bonarmé; the last months of 1794。)



'67' Pans; 〃Histoire de Joseph Lebon;〃 II。; 92。  (Declaration by

Guérard; lawyer; appointed judge at Cambrai; by the Cambrai

Revolutionary committee。) … Ibid。; 54。  (Declaration by Lemerre;

appointed juryman without his knowledge; in the Cambrai court。) 〃What

was my surprise; I; who never was on a jury in my life! The summons

was brought to me at a quarter to eleven (à onze heur moin un car …

specimen of the orthography) and I had to go at eleven without having

time to say good…by to my family。〃



'68' Report by Courtois on the papers found in Robespierre's domicile;

370。  (Letter of Maignet to Payan; administrator of the department of

Dr?me; Germinal 20; year II。) 〃You know the dearth of subjects here 。

。  。       Give me the names of a dozen outspoken republicans 。  。  。

。  If you cannot find them in this department (Vaucluse) hunt for them

either in the Dr?me or the Isère; or in any other。  I should like

those adapted to a revolutionary tribunal。  I should even like; in

case of necessity; to have some that are qualified to act as national

agents。〃



'69' Archives des Affaires étrangères; vols。  322 to 334; and 1409 to

1411。  … These agents reside in N?mes; Marseilles; Toulouse; Tarbes;

Bordeaux; Auch; Rochefort; Brest; Bergues; Givet; Metz; Thionville;

Strasbourg; Colmar; Belfort and Grenoble; and often
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