[Footnote 2114: Decree of 15-18 Floréal, year II. Decree of
September 29, 1793, (in which forty objects of prime necessity are
enumerated.--Article 9 decrees three days imprisonment against workmen
and manufacturers who "without legitimate reason, shall refuse to do
their ordinary task."--Decrees of September 16 and 20, 1793, and that of
September 11, articles 16,19, 20 and 21.]
[Footnote 2115: Archives Nationales, AF. II., III. Order of the
representative Ferry; Bourges, 23 Messidor, year II.--Ibid., AF. II.,
106. Order of the representative Dartigoyte, Auch, Prairial 18, year
II.]
[Footnote 2116: Decree of Brumaire 11, year II., article 7.]
[Footnote 2117: Gouvion Saint Cyr, "Mémoires sur les campagnes de 1792 à
la paix de Campo-Formio," I., 91-109: "Promotion, which every one feared
at this time."... Ibid. 229. "Men who had any resources obstinately
held aloof from any kind of advancement." Archives Nationales, DS. I, 5.
(Mission of representative Albert in L'Aube and La Marne, and especially
the order issued by Albert, Chalons, Germinal 7, year III., with
the numerous petitions of judges and town officers soliciting their
removal.--Letter of the painter Gosse (published in Le Temps, May 31,
1872), which is very curious, showing the trials of those in
private life during the Revolution: "My father was appointed charity
commissioner and quartermaster for the troops; at the time of the
Reign of Terror it would have been imprudent to have refused any
office"--Archives Nationales, F7, 3485. The case of Girard Toussaint,
notary at Paris, who "fell under the sword of the law, Thermidor 9,
year II." This Girard, who was very liberal early in the revolution, was
president of his section in 1789, but, after the 10th of August, he had
kept quiet. The committee of the section of the "Amis de la Patrie,"
"considering that citizen Girard.... came forward only at the time when
the court and Lafayette prevailed against the sans-culottes;" that,
"since equality was established by the Revolution he has deprived his
fellow citizens of his knowledge, which, in a revolution, is criminal,
unanimously agree that the said citizen is "suspect" and order "him to
be sent to the Luxembourg."]
[Footnote 2118: Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile
du clergé," IV., 131, 135. (Orders issued by Dartigoyte and de
Pinet).--"Recueil de pieces authentiques serrant à l'histoire de la
révolution à Strasbourg." Vol. I. p. 230. (Speech by Schneider at Barr,
for marrying the patriot Funck.) Schneider, it appears, did still better
on his own account. (Ibid., 317).]
[Footnote 2119: Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 160. (Report of Saint-Just,
October 20, 1793.) "You have to punish not only traitors, but even the
indifferent; you must punish all in the Republic who are passive and do
nothing for it."]
[Footnote 2120: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 338. Report of the Convention
on the theory of democratic government, by Billaud-Varennes (April 20,
1794).]
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