.. The allotment among the tax-payers is made with
the most revolting inequality.... Partiality through connections of
relatives and of friendship."]

[Footnote 4243: Decrees of September 29, 1793 (articles 8 and 9); of
May 4 and 20, and June 26, 1794.--Archives Nationales, AF., II., 68-72.
(Orders of the Committee of Public Safety, Prairial 26, year II.) "The
horses and wagons of coal peddlers, the drivers accustomed to taking
to Paris by law a portion of the supply of coal used in baking in the
department of Seine-et-Marne, are drafted until the 1st of Brumaire
next, for the transportation of coal to Paris. During this time they
cannot be drafted for any other service." (A good many orders in
relation to provisions and articles of prime necessity may be found in
these files, mostly in the handwriting of Robert Lindet.)]

[Footnote 4244: Cf. "The Revolution," II., 69.--Dauban, "Paris en
1794." (Report by Pouvoyeur, March 15, 1794.) "A report has been long
circulated that all the aged were to be slaughtered; there is not a
place where this falsehood is not uttered."]

[Footnote 4245: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4435, file 10, letters of
Collot d'Herbois, Brumaire 17 and 19, year II.--De Martel, "Fouche,"
340, 341. Letters of Collot d'Herbois, November 7 and 9, 1793.]

[Footnote 4246: De Martel, ibid., 462. (Proclamation by Javogues,
Pluviose 13, year II.)]

[Footnote 4247: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 330. (Letter of
Brutus, political agent, Nivose 6.)]

[Footnote 4248: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 116. (Orders of Taillefer
and Marat-Valette, and Deliberations of the Directory of Lot, Brumaire
20, year II.)]

[Footnote 4249: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 331. (Letter of
the agent Bertrand, Frimaire 3.)]

[Footnote 4250: Ibid., vol. 1332. (Letter of the agent Chepy, Brumaire
2.)]

[Footnote 4251: Ibid., vol.1411. (Letter of Blessmann and Hauser,
Brumaire 30.)--Ibid. (Letter of Haupt, Belfort, Brumaire 29.) "I believe
that Marat's advice should be followed here and a hundred scaffolds be
erected; there are not guillotines enough to cut off the heads of the
monopolists. I shall do what I can to have the pleasure of seeing one of
these damned bastards play hot cockles."]

[Footnote 4252: Ibid., vol.333. (Letter of Garrigues, Pluviose 16.)]

[Footnote 4253: "Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux,"
pp.83-85. (June and July, 1794.)--Ibid., at Nantes.--Dauban, "Paris en
1794," p.194, Marc