09: Dumouriez, III. 339.--Meillan, "Memoires," 27. "Eight
days after his installation as Minister of War, Beurnonville confessed
to me that he had been offered sums to the amount of 500,000 francs
to lend himself to embezzlements." He tries to sweep out the vermin of
stealing employees, and is forthwith denounced by Marat.--Barbaroux,
"Memoires" (Ed. Dauban). (Letter of Feb. 5, 1793.) "I found the Minister
of the Interior in tears at the obstinacy of Vieilz, who wanted him to
violate the law of Oct. 12, 1791 (on promotion)." Vieilz had been in the
service only four months, instead of five years, as the law required,
and the Minister did not dare to make an enemy of a man of so much
influence in the clubs. Buchez et Roux, XXVIII.19 ("Publication des
pieces relatives au 31 Mai," at Caen, by Bergoing, June 28, 1793): "My
friend learned that the place had been given to another, who had paid
50 louis to the deputy.--The places in the bureaus, the armies, the
administrations and commissions are estimated at 9,000. The deputies
of the Mountain have exclusive disposal of them and set their price
on them, the rates being almost publicly stated." The number greatly
increases during the following year (Mallet du Pan, II.56, March, 1794).
"The public employees at the capital alone amount to 35,000."]

[Footnote 3310: Decree of Aug. 11, 12, 1792.]

[Footnote 3311: Sauzay, III. 45. The number increases from 3,200 to
7,000.]

[Footnote 3312: Durand-Maillane, "Memoires," p. 30: "This proceeding
converted the French proletariat, which had no property or tenacity,
into the dominant party at electoral assemblages.... The various clubs
established in France (were) then masters of the elections." In the
Bouches-du-Rhone "400 electors in Marseilles, one-sixth of whom had
not the income of a silver marc, despotically controlled our Electoral
Assembly. Not a voice was allowed to be raised against them... Only
those were elected whom Barbaroux designated."]

[Footnote 3313: Decree of Aug. 11, 12, "Archives Nationales," CII. 58
to 76. Official report of the Electoral Assembly of the Rhone-et-Loire,
held at Saint-Etienne. The electors of Saint-Etienne demand remuneration
the same as the others, considering that they gave their time in the
same way. Granted.]

[Footnote 3314: "Archives Nationales," CII. 1 to 32. Official report
of the Electoral Assembly of the Bouches-du-Rhone, speech by
Durand-Maillane: "Could I in the National Convention be