uspected. Whoever has spoken against revolutionary committees, or
disapproved of the assaults of the 31st of May, or not openly shown
himself on the 10th of August, or voted on the wrong side in the old
Legislative Assembly, might be arrested. It is a general, simultaneous
raid; in all the streets we see nothing but people seized and
under escort sent to prison, or put before the section committee.
"Anti-patriotic" journalists are arrested first of all, the entire
impression of their journals being additionally confiscated, and the
journal suppressed; the printing-rooms of Gorsas are sacked, seals
placed on his presses,[34150] and Prudhomme himself is locked up. All
resistance is overcome in the Contrat-Social, Fraternity, Marais and
Marseilles sections, leaving the Commune free, as far as the street
is concerned, to recommence its attack on the Convention. "Lists of
sans-culottes workmen" have been drawn up in each section, and six
francs a head is allowed them, payable by the Convention, as indemnity
for their temporary suspension from work;[34151] this is a premium
offered to voters, and as nothing is more potent than cash in hand,
Pache provides the funds by diverting 150,000 francs intended for the
colonists in San Domingo; the whole day on the 2nd of June, trusted
men go about among the ranks distributing five-franc assignats.[34152]
Vehicles loaded with supplies accompany each battalion, the better to
keep the men under arms;[34153] the stomach needs filling up, and a pint
of wine is excellent for strengthening patriotic sentiment. Henriot has
ordered back from Courbevoie the battalions of volunteers which a few
days before had been enlisted for La Vendee,[34154] crooked adventurers
and looters, later known as "the heroes of the 500 francs." Besides
these he has under his thumb Rosenthal's hussars, a body of German
veterans who do not understand French, and will remain deaf to any legal
summons. Finally, he surrounds the Convention with a circle of picked
sans-culottes, especially the artillerists, the best of Jacobins,[34155]
who drag along with them the most formidable park of artillery, 163
cannons, with grates and charcoal to heat the balls. The Tuileries is
thus encircled by bands of roughs and fanatics; the National Guard, five
or six times as many,[34156] brought out "to give an appearance of a
popular movement to the proceedings of five or six thousand bandits,"
cannot come to the aid of the Convention, it