to intimidate honest folks by terror, in order to keep what
they have seized, awaiting an opportunity to get more.... When the
elections were over they sent daring men, undoubtedly paid, to insult
people as they passed, calling them royalist chouans." (He mentions the
dispatch of supporting affidavits.)--Mercier, "Le Nouveau Paris," II.,
315. "Peaceable people in Paris refuse to go to the polls," so as to
"avoid being struck and knocked down."--Sauzay, VIII., 9. At Besancon,
Nov. 6, 1795, out of 5,309 registered voters, only 1,324 vote and the
elected are terrorists.--Archives Nationales, F.7, 7090. (Documents on
the Jacobin insurrection of Nivose 4 and 5, year IV., at Arles): "The
exclusives, or amnestied, regarded the Constitution only as a means
of arriving at a new state of anarchy by getting possession of all
the offices.... Shouts and cries of Vive Marat! and Robespierre to
the Pantheon! were often repeated.--The principal band was composed of
genuine Terrorists, of the men who under Robespierre's reign bore the
guillotine about in triumph, imitating its cruel performances on every
corner with a manikin expressly made for the occasion."--"Domiciliary
visits, rummaging everywhere, stealing jewelry, money, clothes, etc."]

[Footnote 5133: Mallet-Dupan, II., 363.--Schmidt (Police report of
Brumaire 26 and 27).]

[Footnote 5134: Dufort de Cheverney, (manuscript memoirs communicated by
Robert de Crevecoeur).--Report of the public prosecutor, dated Thermidor
13, year III., according to documents handed in on Messidor 16, by the
foreman of the jury of indictment and by the juges de paix of Chinon,
Saumur, Tours, Amboise, Blois, Beaugency, etc., relating to the charges
made by the administrators of the department of Loire-et-Cher, dated
Frimaire 30, year II., concerning the fusillades at Blois, Frimaire 19,
year II.]

[Footnote 5135: The line of this march from Saumur to Montsoreau could
be traced by the blood along the road; the leaders shot those who
faltered with fatigue.--On reaching Blois, Frimaire 18, Hezine says,
before the town-hall, "To-morrow morning they shall be straightened out
and we'll show the Blesois how the thing is managed." The following day,
Hezine and Gidouin, taking a walk with Lepetit, commander of the escort,
in the court of the inn, say to him: "You'll shoot some of them for us.
You must give the people an example by shooting some of those rascally
priests." Lepetit orders out four peasants an