rgeoisie I have cited the family of Beaumarchais. Concerning
the nobles, see the admirable letter by Buffon June 22, 1787,
(correspondence of Buffon, two vols., published by M. Nadaud de Buffon),
telling his son how he ought to act on account of his wife's behavior.]

[Footnote 4187: Moniteur, XIX., 669.]

[Footnote 4188: Dauban, "Paris en 1794," p.245. (Report by Bacon,
Ventose 25, year II.)]

[Footnote 4189: Ibid. (Report by Perriere, Ventose 26.)]

[Footnote 4190: Ironical, slang for a hog. TR.]

[Footnote 4191: Ibid., 245. (Report by Bacon, speech of an orator to the
general assembly of the section "Contrat-Social," Ventose 25.)]

[Footnote 4192: "Un Sejour en France." (Sep., 1792.) Letter of a
Parisian: "It is not yet safe to walk the streets in decent clothes.
I have been obliged to procure and put on pantaloons, jacket, colored
cravat and coarse linen, before attempting to go outdoors."--Beaulieu,
"Essais," V., 281. "Our dandies let their moustaches grow long; while
they rumpled their hair, dirtied their hands and donned nasty garments.
Our philosophers and literary men wore big fur caps with long fox-tails
dangling over their shoulders; some dragged great trailing sabers along
the pavement--they were taken for Tartars.... In public assemblies, in
the theatre boxes, nothing was seen in the front rows but monstrous red
bonnets. All the galeriens of all the convict prisons in Europe seem to
have come and set the fashion in this superb city which had given it to
all Europe."--"Un Sejour en France," p. 43. (Amiens, September, 1792.)
"Ladies in the street who are well-dressed or wear colors that the
people regard as aristocratic are commonly insulted. I, myself, have
been almost knocked down for wearing a straw hat trimmed with green
ribbons."--Nolhac, "Souvenirs de Trois Annees de la Revolution at
Lyons," p.132. "It was announced that whoever had two coats was to fetch
one of them to the Section, so as to clothe some good republican and
ensure the reign of equality."]

[Footnote 4193: Buchez et Roux, XXVI., 455. (Speech by Robespierre,
in the Jacobin club, May 10, 1793.): "The rich cherish hopes for an
anti-revolution; it is only the wretched, only the people who can save
the country."--Ibid., XXX. (Report by Robespierre to the Convention,
December 25, 1793.): "Virtue is the appanage of the unfortunate and the
people's patrimony."--Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 72. (Letter of the
municipality of Montauban, Ven