nd Lebas,
Strasbourg, Brumaire 10, year II.) The following is equally ironical;
the rich of Strasbourg are represented as "soliciting a loan on opulent
persons and severe measures" against refractory egoists.]

[Footnote 41115: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 92. Orders of
Representative Taillefer, Villefranche, Aveyron, Brumaire 3, year II.,
and of his delegate, Deitheil, Brumaire 11, year II.]

[Footnote 41116: This is the case in Lyons, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and
at Paris, as we see in the signatures of the petition of the eight
thousand, or that of the twenty thousand, and for members of the
Feuillants clubs, etc.]

[Footnote 41117: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 116. (Minutes of the
public session of Ventose 20, year II., held at Montargis, in the Temple
of Reason, by Benon, "national agent of the commune and special agent
of the people's representative." Previous and subsequent orders, by
Representative Lefert.) Eighty-six persons signed, subject to public
penance, among them twenty-four wives or widows, which, with the four
names sent to the Paris tribunal and the thirty-two imprisoned, makes
one hundred and twenty-two. It is probable that the one hundred and six
who are wanting to complete the list of two hundred and twenty-eight had
emigrated, or been banished in the interval as unsworn priests.--Ibid.,
D.S., I., 10. (Orders by Delacroix, Bouchet and Legendre, Conches,
Frimaire 8 and 9, year II.) The incarceration of the municipal officers
of Conches for an analogous petition and other marks of Feuillantism.]

[Footnote 41118: The real sentiments and purposes of the Jacobins are
well shown at Strasbourg. ("Recueil de Pieces, etc.," I., 77. Public
meeting of the municipal body, and speech by Bierlyn, Prairial 25, year
II.) " How can the insipid arrogance of these (Strasbourg) people be
represented to you, their senseless attachment to the patrician families
in their midst, the absurd feuil1antism of some and the vile sycophancy
of others? How is it, they say, that moneyless interlopers, scarcely
ever heard of before, dare assume to have credit in a town of sensible
inhabitants and honest families, from father to son, accustomed to
governing and renowned for centuries?"--Ibid., 113. (Speech of the mayor
Mouet, Floreal 21, year II.) "Moral purification (in Strasbourg) has
become less difficult through the reduction of fortunes and the salutary
terror excited among those covetous men.. . Civilization has encounter