staff of a large town:[3385] the whole number might sit around one table.--The Jacobins, straining as they do to swell their numbers, only scatter their band; careful as they are in making their selections, they only limit their number. They remain what they always have been, a small feudality of brigands superposed on conquered France.[3386] If the terror they spread around multiplies their serfs, the horror they inspire diminishes their proselytes, while their minority remains insignificant because, for their collaborators, they can have only those just like themselves. VI. Quality of staff thus formed. Quality of staff thus formed.--Social state of the agents. --Their unfitness and bad conduct.--The administrators in Seine-et-Marne.--Drunkenness and feasting.--Committees and Municipalities in the Côte-d'Or.--Waste and extortions. --Traffickers in favors at Bordeaux.--Seal breakers at Lyons. --Monopolizers of national possessions.--Sales of personal property.--Embezzlements and Frauds.-A procès-verbal in the office of the mayor of Strasbourg.--Sales of real-estate. --Commissioners on declarations at Toulouse.--The administrative staff and clubs of buyers in Provence.--The Revolutionary Committee of Nantes. But when we regard the final and last set of officials of the revolutionary government closely, in the provinces as well as at Paris, we find among them we hardly anyone who is noteworthy except in vice, dishonesty and misconduct, or, at the very least, in stupidity and grossness.--First, as is indicated by their name, they all must be, and nearly all are, sans-culottes, that is to say, men who live from day to day on their daily earnings, possessing no income from capital, confined to subordinate places, to petty trading, to manual services, lodged or encamped on the lowest steps of the social ladder, and therefore requiring pay to enable them to attend to public business;[3387] it is on this account that decrees and orders allow them wages of three, five, six, ten, and even eighteen francs a day.--At Grenoble, the representatives form the municipal body and the revolutionary committee, along with two health-officers, three glovers, two farmers, one tobacco-merchant, one perfumer, one grocer, one belt-maker, one innkeeper, one joiner, one shoemaker, one mason, while the official order by which they are installed, appoints "Teyssière, licoriste," national agent.[3388]--At Troyes,[3389] among the men in authority we find a confectioner, a weaver, a journeyman-weaver, a hatter, a hosier, a grocer, a carpenter, a dancing-master, and a policeman, while the mayor, Gachez, formerly a private soldier in the regiment of Vexin, was, when appointed, a school-teacher in the vicinity.--At Toulouse,[3390] a man named Terrain, a pâté dealer, is installed as president of the administration; the revolutionary committee is presided over by Pio,