ecretary of the court.) Twelve hundred of these
poor creatures were set free after Thermidor 9.]

[Footnote 41104: Moniteur, session of June 29, 1797. (Report of
Luminais.) Danican, "Les Brigands Demasques," p. 194.]

[Footnote 41105: Meillan, "Memoires," p. 166.]

[Footnote 41106: Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire,"
p. 419.--Archives Nationales, AF., II., 145. (Orders issued by
Representative Maignet, Floreal 14, 15 and 17, year II.) "The criminal
court will try and execute the principal criminals; the rest of the
inhabitants will abandon their houses in twenty-four hours, and take
their furniture along with them. The town will then be burnt. All
rebuilding or tillage of the soil is forbidden. The inhabitants will be
apportioned among neighboring communes; nobody is allowed to leave the
commune assigned to him under penalty of being treated as an emigre.
All must appear once every ten days at the municipality under penalty of
being declared 'suspect' and imprisoned."]

[Footnote 41107: "Recueil de Pieces, etc.," I., 52. (Carret de Beudot
and La Coste, Pluviose 6, year II.) "Whereas, it being impossible to
find jurors within an extent of one hundred leagues, two-thirds of the
inhabitants having emigrated."--Moniteur, Aug.28 and 29, 1797. (Report
by Harmand de la Meuse.)--Ibid., XIX., 714. (Session of Ventose 26, year
II., speech by Baudot.) "Forty thousand persons of all ages and both
sexes in the districts alone of Haguenau and Wissembourg, fled from the
French territory on the lines being retaken. The names are in our hands,
their furniture in the depot at Saverne and their property is made over
to the Republic."]

[Footnote 41108: Albert Babeau, "Histoire de Troyes," II., 160. "A
gardener had carefully accumulated eight thousand two hundred and
twenty-three livres in gold, the fruit of his savings; threatened with
imprisonment, he was obliged to give them up."]

[Footnote 41109: Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 116. (Orders of
Representative Paganel, Toulouse, Brumaire 12, year II.) "The day has
arrived when apathy is an insult to patriotism, and indifference a
crime. We no longer reply to the objections of avarice; we will
force the rich to fulfill the duties of fraternity which they have
abjured."--Ibid. (Extract from the minutes of the meetings of the
Central committee of Montauban, April II, 1793, with the approval of
the representative, Jeanbon-Saint-Andre.) "The moment has at length come
when