[Footnote 3398: Ibid. Orders of Albert, Ventôse 5, and Pluviôse 29, year
III., reorganizing the courts and administrations in the districts of
Ervy, Arcis and Nogent-sur-Seine, with a tabular statement of the names
of those removed and the reasons for so doing.]
[Footnote 3399: Petition of Jean Nicolas Antoine, former member of the
Directory of the district of Troyes for twenty-eight months. (Ventose
9, year II I.) Shut up in Troyes, he asks permission to go to Paris, "I
have a small lot of goods which it is necessary for me to sell in
Paris. It is my native town and I know more people there than anywhere
else."-Ibid. Information furnished on Antoine by the Conseil-general of
the Commune of Troyes.]
[Footnote 33100: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 59. (Memorials dated
Messidor 28, year II., by an emissary of the Committee of Public Safety,
sent to Troyes, Prairial 29, to report on the situation of things and
on the troubles in Troyes.)--Albert Babeau, II., 203, 205 and 112,
122.--Cf. 179. "Gachez, intoxicated, about eleven o'clock at night, with
several women as drunk as himself, compelled the keeper of the Temple of
Reason to open the doors, threatening him with the guillotine."--Ibid.,
166. He addressed the sans-culottes in the popular club: "Now is the
time to put yourselves in the place of the rich. Strike, and don't put
it off!"--Ibid., 165." 42,633 livres were placed in the hands of Gachez
and the committee, as secret revolutionary service money.... Between
December 4 and 10 Gachez received 20,000 livres, in three orders, for
revolutionary expenses and provisional aid.... The leaders of the party
disposed of these sums without control and, it may be added, without
scruple; Gachez hands over only four thousand livres to the sectional
poor-committee. On Nivôse 12, there remains in the treasury of the poor
fund only 3738 livres, 12 000 having been diverted or squandered."]
[Footnote 33101: "Frochot," by Louis Passy, 172. (Letter of Pajot,
member of the revolutionary committee of Aignay-le-Duc.) "Denunciations
occupied most of the time at our meetings, and it is there that one
could see the hatreds and vengeance of the colleagues who ruled us."]
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