ves" alleged to justify the sentence of transportation. One has
refused to baptize an infant whose parents were only married civilly.
Another has "declared to his audience that the catholic marriage was
the best." Another "has fanaticized." Another "has preached pernicious
doctrines contrary to the constitution." Another "may, by his presence,
incite disturbances," etc. Among the condemned we find septuagenarians,
known priests and even married priests.--Ibid., 634, 637.]

[Footnote 5194: Sauzay, IX., 715.. (List of names.)]

[Footnote 5195: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 656.]

[Footnote 5196: Dufort de Cheverney, "Memoires," September 7,
1798.--Ibid., February 26, 1799. "In Belgium priests are lodged in the
Carmelites (convent)." September 9, 1799. "Two more carts are sent full
of priests for the islands of Rhe and Oleron."]

[Footnote 5197: Thibaudeau, II.. 318, 321.--Mallet-Dupan, II., 357, 368.
The plan went farther: "All children of emigrants," or of those falsely
accused of being such, "left in France, shall be taken from their
relatives and confided to republican tutors, and the republic shall
administer their property."]

[Footnote 5198: In reading about this Lenin and Stalin must have been
inspired to create their Goulags to which not only Russian and Estonian
"petit Bourgeois," but also other undesirable national groups were sent.
(SR.)]

[Footnote 5199: Decree of Frimaire 9, year VI. (Exceptions in favor of
the actual members of the Directory, ministers, military men on duty,
and the members of the diverse National Assemblies, except those who in
the constituent Assembly protested against the abolition of nobility.)
One of the speakers, a future count of the Empire, proposed that every
noble claiming his inscription on the civic registers should sign the
following declaration: "As man and as republican, I equally detest the
insolent superstition which pretends to distinctions of birth, and the
cowardly and shameful superstition which believes in and maintains it."]

[Footnote 51100: Decree of Fructidor 19, year II.]

[Footnote 51101: Lally-Tollendal, "Defense des Emigres," (Paris. 1797,
2nd part, 49, 62, 74. Report of Portalis to the Council of Five Hundred,
Feb. 18, 1796. "Regard that innumerable class of unfortunates who have
never left the republican soil."--Speech by Dubreuil, Aug.26, 1796.
"The supplementary list in the department of Avignon bears 1004 or 1005
names. And yet I can attest to you that there