[Footnote 3322: Dauban, ib., 308. (Note found among Danton's papers and probably written by the physician, Quevremont de Lamotte.)] [Footnote 3323: Dauban, ib., 125. (Report of Bérard, Ventôse 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."] [Footnote 3324: Dauban, ibid., 307. (Report of March 29, 1794.)] [Footnote 3325: Ibid., 150. (Report of Ventôse 14.)--Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Reports of Nivôse 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."] [Footnote 3326: 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."] [Footnote 3327: Dauban, ibid., 345. (Order of the day by Henriot, Floreal 9.)] [Footnote 3328: Mallet-Dupan, II., 56. (March, 1794.)] [Footnote 3329: 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."] [Footnote 3330: 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."]