and number for Nov. 21, 1792): "The sections
(are) composed of, or at least frequented, nineteen-twentieth of them,
by the lowest class, both in manners and information."]

[Footnote 3388: Schmidt, II. 39 (Dutard, June 13).]

[Footnote 3389: Schmidt, II.87 (Dutard, June 14). The expression of
these fish-women is still coarser.]

[Footnote 3390: Retif de la Bretonne ("Bibliographie de ses oeuvres, par
Jacob," 287).--(On the pillage of shops, Feb.25 and 26, 1793).]

[Footnote 3391: Schmidt, II. 61; I. 265 (Dutard, May 21 and June 17).]

[Footnote 3392: Schmidt, I.96 (Letter of citizen Lauchou to the
president of the Convention, Oct. 11, 1792).--II. 37 (Dutard, June 13).
Statement of a wigmaker's wife: "They are a vile set, the servants.
Some of them come here every day. They chatter away and say all sorts of
horrible things about their masters. They are all just alike. Nobody is
crazier than they are. I knew that some of them had received benefits
from their masters, and others who were:still being kindly treated; but
nothing stopped them."]

[Footnote 3393: Schmidt, I. 246 (Dutard, May 18).--Gregoire, "Memoires,"
I. 387. The mental and moral decline of the party is well shown in the
new composition of the Jacobin Club after September, 1792: "I went back
there," says Gregoire in September, 1792 (after a year's absence), "and
found it unrecognizable; no opinions could be expressed there other than
those of the Paris section... I did not set foot there again; (it was)
a factious disreputable drinking place."--Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 214
(session of April 30,1793, speech by Buzot). "Behold that once famous
club. But. thirty of its founders remain there; you find there none but
men steeped in debt and crime."]

[Footnote 3394: Schmidt, I. 189 (Dutard, May 6).]

[Footnote 3395: Cf. Retif de la Bretonne, "Nuits de Paris," vol. XVI.
(July 12, 1789). At this date Retif is in the Palais-Roya1, where "since
the 13th of June numerous meetings have been held and motions made... I
found there none but brutal fellows with keen eyes, preparing themselves
for plunder rather than for liberty."]

[Footnote 3396: Mortimer-Ternaux, V.226 and following pages (address of
the sans-culottes section, Sept. 25).--"Archives Nationales," F7, 146
(address of the Roule section, Sept. 23). In relation to the threatening
tone of those at work on the camp, the petitioners add: "Such was the
language of the workshops in 1789 and 1790."]

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