书城公版The Origins of Contemporary France
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[22] Dauban, ib., 308. (Note found among Danton's papers and probably written by the physician, Quevremont de Lamotte.)[23] Dauban, ib., 125. (Report of Bérard, Vent?se 10.) In the words of a woman belonging to the Bonne-Novelle section: "My husband has been in prison four months. And what for? He was one of the first at the Bastille; he has always refused places so that the good sans-culottes might have them, and, if he has made enemies, it was because he was unwilling to see these filled by ignoramuses or new-comers, who, vociferating and apparently thirsting for blood, have created a barrier of partisans around them."[24] Dauban, ibid., 307. (Report of March 29, 1794.)[25] Ibid., 150. (Report of Vent?se 14.) - Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Reports of Niv?se 9 and 25.): "A great many citizens are found in the sections who are called out after the meeting, to get forty sous. I notice that most of them are masons, and even a few coach drivers belonging to the nation, who can do without the nation's indemnity, which merely serves them for drink to make them very noisy." - " The people complain, because the persons to whom the forty sous are given, to attend the section assemblies do nothing all day, being able to work at different trades.... and they relay upon these forty sous."[26] Dauban, ibid., 312. (Note by Quevremont.) - Moniteur, XVIII., 568, (Meeting of the commune, Frimaire 11, year II.): "The Beaurepaire section advertises that wishing to put a stop to the cupidity of the wine-dealers of the arrondissement, it has put seals on all their cellars."[27] Dauban, ibid., 345. (Order of the day by Henriot, Floreal 9.)[28] Mallet-Dupan, II., 56. (March, 1794.)[29] Buchez et Roux, XXVII., 10. (Speech by Barbaroux, May 14, 1793.)- Report on the papers found in Robespierre's apartment by Courtois, 285. (Letter by Collot d'Herbois Frimaire 3, year II., demanding that Paris Jacobins be sent to him at Lyons.) " If I could have asked for our old ones I should have done. . . but they are necessary at Paris, almost all of them having been made mayors."[30] Meissner, "Voyage à Paris," (at the end of 1795,) 160. "Persons who can neither read nor write obtain the places of accountants of more or less importance."? Archives des Affaires étrangères, vol.

324. (Denunciations of Pio to the club, against his colleagues.) -Dauban, ibid., 35. (Note by Quevremont, Jan., 1794.): "The honest man who knows how to work cannot get into the ministerial bureaux, especially those of the War and Navy departments, as well as those of the Commune and of the Departments, without having a lump in his throat. - Offices are mostly filled by creatures of the Commune who very often have neither talent nor integrity. Again, the denunciations, always welcomed, however frivolous and baseless they may be, turn everything upside down.

[31] Moniteur, XXIV., 397 (Speech of Dubois-Crancé in the Convention Floréal 16, year III.) - Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Report by Rolin, Niv?se 7, year II.) "The same complaints are heard against the civil Commissioners of the section, most of whom are unintelligent, not even knowing how to read."[32] Archives des Affaires étrangères, vol. 1411. (August, 1793.)"Plan adopted" for the organization of the Police, "excepting executive modifications." In fact, some months later, the number of claqueurs, male and female, is much greater, and finally reaches a thousand. (Beaulieu, "Essais," V., l10.) - The same plan comprehends fifteen agents at two thousand four hundred francs, "selected from the frequenters of the clubs," to revise the daily morning lists; thirty at one thousand francs, for watching popular clubs, and ninety to twelve hundred francs for watching the section assemblies.

[33] Archives Nationales, F.7, 4436. (Letter of Bouchotte, Minister of war, Prairial 5, year II.) "The appointment of Ronsin, as well as of all his staff, again excited public opinion. The Committee, to assure itself, sent the list to the Jacobin club, where they were accepted." - Ibid., AF.,II., 58. " Paris, Brumaire II, year II., club of the Friends of Liberty and Equality, in session at the former Jacobin club, rue St. Honoré. List of the citizens who are to set out for Lyons and act as national commissioners. (Here follow their names.) All the citizens designated have undergone the inspection of the said club, at its meeting this day." (Here follow the signatures of the President and three secretaries.) - "Journal des Débats et Correspondence de la Société des Jacobins, No.543, 5th day of the 3rd month of the year II. - In relation to the formation of a new Central club, "Terrasson is of opinion that this club may become liberticide, and demands a committee to examine into it and secure its extinction.

The committee demanded by Terrasson is appointed." - It is evident that they hold on energetically to this monopoly. - Cf. Moniteur, XIX., 637. (Vent?se 13.) Motion adopted in the Jacobin club, obliging the ministers to turn out of office any individual excluded from the club.

[34] Dauban, ibid., 307. (Report of Germinal 9.)[35] Moniteur, XXII. 353. (Session of Brumaire 20, year III.

Reclamation made by M. Bélanger at the bar of the Convention.)[36] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 40. (Acts passed by the Committee of Public Safety at the dates indicated.) Beaulieu, "Essais," v., 200.