ed
mighty obstacles in this great number of well-to-do families who have
nourished souvenirs of, and who regret the privileges enjoyed by, these
families under the Emperors; they have formed a caste apart from the
State carefully preserving the gothic pictures of their ancestors they
were united only amongst themselves. They are excluded from all public
functions. Honest artisans, now taken from all pursuits, impel the
revolutionary cart with a vigorous hand."]

[Footnote 41119: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 1411.
(Instructions for the civil commissioners by Herault, representative
of the people, Colmar, Frimaire 2, year II.) He enumerates the diverse
categories of persons who were to be arrested, which categories are so
large and numerous as to include nine out of ten of the inhabitants.]

[Footnote 41120: Dauban, "Paris en 1794," p.264. (Report of Pourveyeur,
Ventose 29.) "They remark (sic) that one is not (sic) a patriot
with twenty-thousand livres (sic) income, and especially a former
advocate-general."]

[Footnote 41121: De Martel, "Fouche," p.226, 228. For instance, at
Nevers, a man of sixty-two years of age, is confined "as rich, egoist,
fanatic, doing nothing for the Revolution, a proprietor, and having five
hundred livres revenue."]

[Footnote 41122: Buchez et Roux, XXVI., '77. (Speech by Cambon, April
27, 1793.)]

[Footnote 41123: "Who are our enemies? The vicious and the rich."--"All
the rich are vicious, in opposition to the Revolution." (Notes made by
Robespierre in June and July, 1793, and speech by him in the Jacobin
club, May 10, 1793.)]

[Footnote 41124: Guillon, II., 355. (Instructions furnished by Collot
d'Herbois and Fouche, Brumaire 26, year II.)]

[Footnote 41125: De Martel, 171, 181. (Orders of Fouche, Nevers, August
25 and October 8, 1793.)]

[Footnote 41126: Guillon.-Archives des Affaires etrangeres, F. 1411.
Reports by observers at Paris, Aug. 12 and 13, 1793. "The rich man is
the sworn enemy of the Revolution."]

[Footnote 41127: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 135. (Orders of
Saint-Just and Lebas, Strasbourg, Brumaire 10, year II., with the list
of names of one hundred and ninety-three persons taxed, together with
their respective amounts of taxation.)--Among others, "a widow Franck,
banker, two hundred thousand livres."--Ibid., AF., II., 49. (Documents
relating to the revolutionary tax at Belfort.) "Vieillard, Moderate and
egoist, ten thousand francs; Keller, rich egoist,