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seven thousand; as aristocrats, of whom the elder and younger brother are imprisoned, Barthelemy the younger ten thousand, Barthelemy senior, three thousand five hundred, Barthelemy junior seven thousand, citoyenne Barthelemy, mother, seven thousand, etc."] [Footnote 41128: "Recueil de Pieces, etc.," I., 22. (Letter of the Strasbourg authorities.) De Martel, p. 288. (Letter of the authorities of Allier.) "Citizens Sainay, Balome, Heulard and Lavaleisse were exposed on the scaffold in the most rigorous season for six hours (at Moulins) with this inscription--'bad citizen who has given nothing to the charity-box.'"] [Footnote 41129: "Recueil de Pieces, etc.," I., 16.] [Footnote 41130: Ibid., I., 159. (Orders of Brumaire 15, year II.)] [Footnote 41131: Archives Nationales, F.7, 2475. (Minutes of the Revolutionary committee of the Piques section.) September 9, 1793, at 3 o'clock in the morning, the committee declares that, for its part, "it has arrested twenty-one persons of the category below stated." October 8, it places two sans-culottes as guards in the houses of all those named below, in the quarter, even those who could not be arrested on account of absence. "It is time to take steps to make sure of all whose indifference (sic) and moderatism is ruining the country."] [Footnote 41132: Berryat Saint-Prix, pp.36, 38. carrier declares suspect "merchants and the rich."] [Footnote 41133: Moniteur, XVIII., 641. (Letter of the representatives imprisoned at Bordeaux, Frimaire 10, year II.)] [Footnote 41134: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.329. (Letter of Brutus, October 3, 1793.)] [Footnote 41135: Ibid., vol.329. (Letter of Charles Duvivier, Lille, Vendemiaire 15, year II.)] [Footnote 41136: Speech by Barere, Ventose 17, year II.] [Footnote 41137: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 331. Letter by Darbault, political agent, Tarbes, Frimaire II, year II. (Project for doing away with middle men in trade, brokers and bankers.) "The profession of a banker is abolished. All holders of public funds are forbidden to sell them under a year and one day after the date of their purchase. No one must be at the same time wholesale and retail dealer, etc." Projects of this sort are numerous. As to the establishment of a purely agricultural and military Republic, see the papers of Saint-Just, and the correspondence of the Lyons Terrorists. According to them the new France needs no silk-weavers. The definite f
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