[Footnote 3391: Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Révolutionaire," (second
edition) p. XIX.--Ibid., XIV. At Rochefort there is on the revolutionary
tribunal a mason, a shoemaker, a caulker, and a cook; at Bordeaux, on
the military commission, an actor, a wine-clerk, a druggist, a baker, a
journeyman-gilder, and later, a cooper and a leather-dresser.]
[Footnote 3392: I heard these expressions during my conversations
with old peasants.--Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 111. (Order of the
Representative Ichon, Messidor 18, year II.) "The popular club of Chinon
will be immediately regenerated. Citizens (I omit their names), the
following showing their occupations: shoemaker, policeman. sabot-maker,
cooper, carter, shoemaker, joiner, butcher carpenter and mason, will
form the committee which is to do the weeding-out and choose successors
among those that offer to become members of the club."? Ibid., D., PI,
10. (Orders of the Representatives Delacroix, Louchet and Legendre,
on mission in the department of Seine-Inférieure for the purpose of
removing, at Conchez, the entire administration, and for forming there a
new revolutionary committee, with full powers, Frimaire 9, year II.)
The members of the committee, the nature of which is indicated, are two
coopers, one gardener, two carpenters, one merchant, a coach-driver
and a tailor. (One finds in the archives, in the correspondence of the
representatives, plenty of orders appointing authorities of the same
sort.)]
[Footnote 3393: Albert Babeau, II., 296.]
[Footnote 3394: The French text reads: "Sa profession est fame de
Paillot-Montabert; son revenu est vivre de ses revenus; ces relation
son d'une fame nous ny portons point d'atantion; ces opignons nous les
présumons semblable à ceux de son mary."]
[Footnote 3395: Archives Nationales, F7, 4421. Order of the Committee of
Surveillance of the third section of Troyes, refusing civic certificates
to seventy-two persons, or sending them before the central committee as
"marchands d'argant, aristocrate, douteux, modére, intrigant, egoiste
fanatique. Fait et areté par nous, membre du Comité."--Ib., Mémoire des
Commissaires de la 5e seiscion dite de la liberté nommé par le citoyen
de Baris (Paris) pour faire les visite de l'argenteri ché les citoyens
de la liste fait par les citoyens Diot et Bailly et Jaquin savoir
depence du 13 et 14 et 15 Frimaire pour leur nouriture du troyes jour
monte à 24 fr.]
[Footnote 3396: Albert Babeau, II., 154.]
[Footnote 3397: Archives Nationales, D., PI, 5. (Mission of
Representative Albert, in Aube and in Marne.)--These notes are made
on the spot, with a thorough knowledge of the situation, by zealous
republicans who are not without common-sense and of average honesty,
(chiefly in Pluviôse and Ventôse, year III).--Letter of Albert to
the directories of the two departments, Prairial 3, year II. "I
am satisfied, during the course of my mission, of the necessity of
reorganizing the municipalities throughout both departments."]
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