moderatism, royalism and pusillanimity, and all other traitorous
or useless sects to the country, should disappear from the soil of
Liberty." All opinions opposed to those of sans-culotterie are blamable
and merit punishment.]
[Footnote 41110: Archives Nationales, F.7, 2471. (Minutes of the
Revolutionary Committee of the Tuileries section, meeting of September
17, 1793.) List of seventy-four persons put under arrest and among them,
M. de Noailles, with the following note opposite his name: "The entire
family to be arrested, including their heir Guy, and Hervet, their old
intendant, rue St. Honore."]
[Footnote 41111: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 322. (Letters
of Ladonay, Chalons, September 17 and 20, 1792.) "At Meaux, the brigands
have cut the throats of fifteen prisoners, seven of whom are priests
whose relations belong to the town or its environs. Hence an immense
number of malcontents."--Sauzay, I., 97. "The country cures are
generally recruited from among the rural bourgeoisie and the most
respected farmers' families."]
[Footnote 41112: Sauzay, passim, especially vols. 3, 4, 5, and 6.]
[Footnote 41113: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4437. Address of the popular
club of Clavisson (Gard.), Messidor 7, year II.--Rodolphe Reuss,
"Seligman Alexandre, sur les Tribulations d'un Israelite Strasbourgeois
Pendant la Terreur," p. 37. Order issued by General Dieche to Coppin,
in command of the "Seminaire" prison. "Strive with the utmost zeal to
suppress the cackle of aristocrats." Such is the sum of the instructions
to jail keepers.]
[Footnote 41114: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 88. (Edict issued by
Representative Milhaud, Narbonne, Ventose 9, year II.) Article II. "The
patriotic donation will be doubled if, in three days, all boats are not
unloaded and all carts loaded as fast as they arrive." Article IV. "The
municipality is charged, on personal responsibility, to proportion the
allotment on the richest citizens of Narbonne." Article VII. "If this
order is not executed within twenty-four hours, the municipality will
designate to the commandant of the post the rich egoists who may have
refused to furnish their contingent, etc." Article VIII. "The commandant
is specially charged to report (the arrests of the refractory rich)
to the representative of the people within twenty-four hours, he being
responsible on his head for the punctual execution of the present
order."--Ibid., AF., II. 135. (Orders of Saint-Just a
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