heir sabers,
then put a bag over his head, kicked him in the face, tormented him, and
almost smothered his wife and two women servants, to make him give up
his money. A carter was shot with a pistol in the shoulder and twice
struck with a saber; the hands about the premises were tied and bound
like so many cattle. Finally the bandits went away, carrying with them
silver plate, a watch, rings, laces, two guns, etc.]

[Footnote 33108: Moniteur, XV. 565.--Buchez et Roux, XXIV. 335 and
following pages.--Retif de la Bretonne, "Nuits de Paris," VIII. 460. (an
eye witness). The last of these details are given by him.]

[Footnote 33109: Cf. Ed. Fleury, "Baboeuf;" pp.139 and 150. Through a
striking coincidence the party staff is still of the same order in 1796.
Baboeuf estimates his adherents in Paris as "4,000 revolutionaries,
1,500 members of the former authorities, and 1,000 bourgeois gunners,"
besides soldiers, prisoners, and a police force. He also recruited a
good many prostitutes. The men who come to him are workmen who pretend
to have arsouille in the Revolution and who are ready to repeat the
job, provided it is "for the purpose of killing those rich rascals, the
monopolizers, merchants, informers, and panaches at the Luxembourg."
(Letter of the agent of the Bonne-Nouvelle section, April 13, 1796.)]

[Footnote 33110: The proportion, composition and spirit of the party
are everywhere the same, especially at Lyons (Guillon de Montleon,
"Memoires," and Balleydier, "Histoire du peuple de Lyon,". passim);
at Toulon (Lauvergne, "Histoire du department du Var"); at Marseilles,
Bordeaux, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Besancon, etc.--At Bordeaux (Riouffe,
"Memoires," 23) "it consisted wholly of vagabonds, Savoyards, Biscayans,
even Germans,..brokers, and water-carriers, who had become so powerful
that they arrested the rich, and so well-off that they traveled by post"
Riouffe adds: "When I read this passage in the Conciergerie men from
every corner of the republic exclaimed in one voice: 'It is the same in
all the communes!'"--Cf. Durand-Maillane, "Memoires," 67: "This people,
thus qualified, since the suppression of the silver marc has been the
most vicious and most depraved in the community."--Dumouriez, II. 51.
"The Jacobins, taken for the most part, from the most abject and most
brutal of the nation, unable to furnish men of sufficient dignity for
offices, have degraded offices to their own level... They are drunken,
barbarous Hel