demiaire 23, year IV.) Many workmen in
the manufactories have been perverted "by excited demagogues and club
orators who have always held out to them equality of fortunes
and presented the Revolution as the prey of the class they called
sans-culottes.... The law of the 'maximum,' at first tolerably well
carried out, the humiliation of the rich, the confiscation of the
immense possessions of the rich, seemed to be the realization of these
fine promises."]

[Footnote 4194: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4421. Petition of Madeleine
Patris.--Petition of Quetrent Cognier, weaver, "sans-culotte, and one
of the first members of the Troyes national guard."--(The Style and
orthography of the most barbarous kind.)]

[Footnote 4195: bid., AF., II. 135. (Extract from the deliberations
of the Revolutionary Committee of the commune of Strasbourg, list of
prisoners and reasons for arresting them.) At Oberschoeffolsheim, two
farmers "because they are two of the richest private persons in the
commune."--"Recueil de Pieces, etc.," I.. 225. (Declaration by Welcher,
revolutionary commissioner). "I, the undersigned, declare that, on the
orders of citizen Clauer, commissioner of the canton, I have surrendered
at Strasbourg seven of the richest in Obershoeffolsheim without knowing
why." Four of the seven were guillotined.]

[Footnote 4196: Buchez et Roux, XXVI., 341. (Speech by Chasles in the
Convention, May 2, 1793.)]

[Footnote 4197: Moniteur, XVIII., 452. (Speech by Hebert in the Jacobin
club, Brumaire 26.)-Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise," 19.
(Reports of Dutard, June II.--Archives Nationales. F7., 31167. (Report
of the Pourvoyeur, Nivose 6, year II.) "The people complain (se plain)
that there are still some conspirators in the interior, such as butchers
and bakers, but particularly the former, who are (son) an intolerable
aristocracy. They (il) will sell no more meat, etc. It is frightful to
see what they (il) give the people."]

[Footnote 4198: "Recueil de Police," etc., I., 69 and 91. At Strasbourg
a number of women of the lower class are imprisoned as "aristocrats
and fanatics," with no other alleged motive. The following are their
occupations: dressmaker, upholsteress, housewife, midwife, baker, wives
of coffee-house keepers, tailors, potters and chimney-sweeps.--Ibid.,
II., 216. "Ursule Rath, servant to an emigre arrested for the purpose of
knowing what her master had concealed.... Marie Faber, on suspicion of
having