This measure is excellent and ensures the triumph of sans-culotteism."- Archives Nationales， F.7， 4434. (Letter of Pérrieu to Brissot， Bordeaux， March 9， 1793.) Before June 2， the national club "of Bordeaux， composed of Maratists， did not comprise more than eight or ten individuals at most." - Moniteur， XXII.， 133. (Speech by Thibeaudeau on the popular club of Poitiers， Vendémiaire II， year III.) - Ibid. (Session of Brumaire 5， year III.， letter of Calès， and session of Brumaire 17， year III.， report by Calès.) "The popular club of Dijon made all neighboring administrative bodies， citizens and districts tremble. All were subject to its laws， and three or four men in it made them. This club and the municipality were one body.""The Terror party does not exist here， or， if it does exist， it does not amount to much： out of twenty thousand inhabitants there are not six who can legitimately be suspected of belonging to it."[86] Baroly， "Les Jacobins Demasqués，" (IV. 8vo.， of 8pp.， year II).
"The Jacobin club， with its four hundred active members at Paris， and the four thousand others in the provinces， not less devoted， represent the living force of the Revolution."[87] Archives Nationales， D. § I.， 10. (Orders of representatives Delacroix， Louchet， and Legendre， Niv？se 12， year II.) "On the petition of the Committee of Surveillance of Evreux， which sets forth that all its members are without means， and that it will be impossible for them to continue their duties since they are without resources for supporting their families，" the representatives allow three of them two hundred and seventy francs each， and a fourth one hundred and eighty francs， as a gratuity (outside of the three francs a day.)[88] Ibid. AF.， II.， 111. (Order of Albitte and La Porte， Prairial 18， year II.)[89] Albert Babeau， II.， 154-157. - Moniteur， XXII. 425. (Session of Brumaire 13， year III. Speech by Cambon.) "A government was organized in which surveillance alone cost 591 millions per annum.
Every man who tilled the ground or worked in a shop， at once abandoned his pursuit for a place on the Revolutionary Committees . . . where he got five francs a day."[90] "Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse，" by citizen Pescare， 162， 166， 435.
[91] 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.
[92] 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.， §I， 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.)[93] Albert Babeau， II.， 296.
[94] 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."[95] 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.
[96] Albert Babeau， II.， 154.
[97] Archives Nationales， D.， §I， 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 Pluvi？se and Vent？se， 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."[98] Ibid. Orders of Albert， Vent？se 5， and Pluvi？se 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.
[99] 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.
