ette, Anaxagoras, so-called, once a
cabin-boy, then a clerk, always in debt, a windbag, and given to drink;
Hebert, called "Pere Duchesne," which states about all that is necessary
for him; Pache, a subaltern busy-body, a bland, smooth-faced intriguer,
who, with his simple air and seeming worth, pushes himself up to
the head of the War Department, where he used all its resources for
pillaging, and who, born in a door-keeper's lodgings, returns there,
either through craft or inclination, to take his dinner.--The Jacobins,
with the civil power in their hands, also grab the military power.
Immediately after the 10th of August,[3406] the National Guard is
reorganized and distributed in as many battalions as there are sections,
each battalion thus becoming "a section in arms"; by this we may judge
its composition, and the kind of rabble-rousers they select as officers
and non-commissioned officers. "The title of National Guard," writes a
deputy, "can no longer be given to the lot of pikemen and substitutes,
mixed with a few bourgeois, who, since the 10th of August, maintain the
military service in Paris." There are, indeed, 110,000 names on paper;
when called out on important occasions, all who are registered may
respond, if not disarmed, but, in general, almost all stay at home and
pay a sans-culotte to mount guard in their place. In fact, there is
for the daily service only a hired reserve in each section, about one
hundred men, always the same individuals. This makes in Paris a band of
four or five thousand roughs, in which the squads may be distinguished
which have already been seen in September: Maillard and his 68 men at
the Abbaye, Gauthier and his 40 men at Chantilly, Audouin, the Sapper
of the Carmelites," and his 350 men in the suburbs of Paris, Fournier,
Lazowski and their 1,500 men at Orleans and Versailles.[3407] As to the
pay of these and that of their civil auxiliaries, the faction is not
troubled about that; for, along with power, it has seized money. To
say nothing of its rapine in September,[3408] and without including
the lucrative offices at its disposition, four hundred of these being
distributed by Pache alone, and four hundred more by Chaumette,[3409]
the Commune has 850,000 francs per month for its military police. Other
bleedings at the Treasury cause more public money to flow into the
pockets of its clients. One million per month supports the idle workmen
which fife and drum have collected together to