are not six names on this
enormous list justly put down as veritable emigrants."]

[Footnote 51102: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 619. (Report of the Yonne
administration, Frimaire, year VI.) "The gendarmerie went to the houses,
in Sens as well as Auxerre, of several of the citizens inscribed on the
lists of emigres who were known never to have left their commune since
the Revolution began. As they have not been found it is probable that
they have withdrawn into Switzerland, or that they are soliciting you to
have their names stricken off."]

[Footnote 51103: Decrees of Vendemiaire 20 and Frimaire 9, year
VI.--Decree of Messidor 10.]

[Footnote 51104: Dufort de Cheverney, "Memoires." (Before the Revolution
he enjoyed an income of fifty thousand livres, of which only five
thousand remain.) "Madame Amelot likewise reduced, rents her mansion for
a living. Through the same delicacy as our own she did not avail herself
of the facility offered to her of indemnifying her creditors with
assignats." "Another lady, likewise ruined, seeks a place in some country
house in order that herself and son may live."--"Statistique de la
Moselle," by Colchen, prefet, year VI. "A great many people with
incomes have perished through want and through payment of interest in
paper-money and the reduction of Treasury bonds."--Dufort de Cheverney,
Ibid., March, 1799. "The former noblesse and even citizens who are at
all well-off need not depend on any amelioration.... They must expect
a complete rescission of bodies and goods.... Pecuniary resources
are diminishing more and more.... Impositions are starving the
country."--Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique," January 25, 1799.
"Thousands of invalids with wooden legs garrison the houses of the
tax-payers who do not pay according to the humor of the collectors.
The proportion of impositions as now laid in relation to those of the
ancient regime in the towns generally is as 88 to 32."]

[Footnote 51105: De Tocqueville, "oeuvres completes," V., 65. (Extracts
from secret reports on the state of the Republic, September 26, 1799.)]

[Footnote 51106: Decree of Messidor 24, year VI.]

[Footnote 51107: De Barante, "Histoire du Directoire," III., 456.]

[Footnote 51108: A. Sorel, "Revue Historique," No.1, for March and May,
1882. "Les Frontieres Constitutionelles en 1795." The treaties concluded
in 1795 with Tuscany, Prussia and Spain show that peace was easy and
that the recognition of the Republic was effect