[Footnote 2187: Moniteur, XIX (Rapport by Barère, Ventôse 21, an II).
"You should detect and combat federalism in all your institutions, as
your natural enemy....A grand central establishment for all the work of
the Republic is an effective means against federalism."--Buchez et Roux,
XXXI, 351, et XXXII, 316 (Rapports by Saint-Just, Ventôse 23 et Germinal
26, year II). "Immorality is a federalism in the civil state...Civil
federalism, by isolating all parts of the state, has dried up
abundance."]
[Footnote 2188: Decree of Germinal 26-29, year II. "Financial companies
are and hereby remain suppressed. All bankers, commission merchants,
and other persons, are forbidden to form any establishment of this order
under any pretext or under any denomination."]
[Footnote 2189: "Memoires de Carnot," I., 278 (Report by Carnot). "That
is not family life. If there are local privileges there will soon be
individual privileges and local aristocracy will bring along in its
train the aristocracy of inhabitants."]
[Footnote 2190: Moniteur, XIX., 683 (Rapport by Barère, Ventôse 21, year
II).--This report should be read in full to comprehend the communistic
and centralizing spirit of the Jacobins. (Undoubtedly Lenin, during his
years in Paris, had read Taine's footnote and asked the national library
for a copy of this rapport. SR.)]
[Footnote 2191: Fenet, "Travaux du Code civil," 105 (Rapports by
Cambacérès, August 9, 1793 and September 9, 1794).--Decrees of September
20, 1793 and Floréal 4, year II (On divorce).--Cf. "Institutions," by
Saint-Just (Buchez et Roux, XXXV, 302). "A man and woman who love
each other are married; if they have no children they may keep their
relationship secret."]
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