书城公版The Origins of Contemporary France
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[125] De Martel, " Fouché," 362.-Ibid.,, 132, 162, 179, 427, 443. -Lecarpentier, in La Manche, constantly stated: "Those who do not like the Revolution, must pay those who make it."[126] Marcelin Boudet, 175. (Address of Monestier to the popular clubs of Puy-de-Dome, February 23, 1793.)[127] Alexandrine des Echerolles, "Une famille noble sous la Terreur."[128] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 65. (Letter of General Kermorvan to the president of the committee of Public Safety, Valenciennes, Fructidor 12, year III.)[129] Report by Courtois, " Sur les papiers de Robespierre," (Pieces justificatives, pp. 312-324), Letters of Reverchon, Germinal 29, Floréal 7 and 23, and by La Porte, Germinal 24, year II.

[130] Ibid. Letter by La Porte "I do not know what fatality induces patriots here not to tolerate their brethren whom they call strangers . . . They have declared to us that they would not suffer any of them to hold office." The representatives dared arrest but two robbers and despoilers, who are now free and declaiming against them at Paris.

"Countless grave and even atrocious circumstances are daily presented to us on which we hesitate to act, lest we should strike patriots, or those who call themselves such . . . Horrible depredations are committed."[131] Ibid. Letter by Reverchon : "These fanatics all want the Republic simply for them-selves." . . . "They call themselves patriots only to cut the throats of their brethren and get rich." -Guillon de Montléon, " Histoire de la ville de Lyons Pendant la Révolution III., 166. (Report by Fouché, April, 1794.) "Innocent persons, acquitted by the terrible tribunal of the Revolutionary committee, were again consigned to the dungeons of criminals through the despotic orders of the thirty-two committees, because they were so unfortunate as to complain that, on returning home, they could not find the strictly necessary objects they had left there."[132] Meissner, "Voyage en France dans les Derniers Mois de 1795,"p.343. "A certain domain was handed over to one of their creatures by the revolutionary departments for almost nothing, less than the proceeds of the first cut of wood."- Moniteur, XXIII., 397. (Speech by Bourdon de l'Oise, May 6, 1795.) "A certain farmer paid for his farm worth five thousand francs by the sale of one horse."[133] Moniteur, XXII., 82. (Report by Grégoire, Fructidor 14, year II.) Ibid., 775. (Report by Grégoire, Frimaire 24, year III.)[134] "Recueil de Pièces Authentiques sur la Révolution à Strasbourg,"II., p. I. (Procès-verbal, drawn up in the presence of the elder Mouet and signed by him.)[135] Moniteur, XXII., 775. (Report of Grégoire, Frimaire 24, year III.) - Ibid., 711. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6, year III.) -Archives Nationales, AF., II., 65. (Letter of General Kermorvan, Valenciennes, Fructidor 12, year III.)[136] "Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse," 184. (Visit of Vent?se 27, year II.)[137] Archives Nationales, F.7, 7164. (Department of Var "Ideégénérale et appréciation avec détails sur chaque canton," year V.)[138] Ibid., F.7, 7171 (No. 7915).- (Department of Bouches-du-Rh?ne, "Ideé générale," year V.) - (Letters of Miollis, commissioner of the Directory in the department, Vent?se 14 and 16, year V. Letter of Gen. Willot to the Minister, Vent?se 10, and of Gen. Merle to Gen.

Willot, Vent?se 17, year V.) "Several sections of anarchists travel from one commune to another exciting weak citizens to riots and getting them to take part in the horrors they are meditating."- Ibid., F 7, 7164. Letter of Gen. Willot to the Minister, Aries, Pluvi?se 12, year V., with supporting documents, and especially a letter of the director of the jury, on the violence committed by, and the reign of, the Jacobins in Aries.) Their party "is composed of the vilest artisans and nearly all the sailors." The municipality recruited amongst former terrorists, "has enforced for a year back the agrarian law, devastation of the forests, pillage of the wheat-crops, by bands of armed men under pretext of the right of gleaning, the robbery of animals at the plough as well as of the flocks," etc.