the latter being taken out of their niches. There is now no kind of
distinction. Saints and authors are of the same class."]

[Footnote 2145: Buchez et Roux., 296. ("Institutions" by
Saint-Just.)--Meillan, "Memoires," p. 17.--Anne Plumptre, "A narrative
of three years' residence in France, from 1802 to 1805," II., 96.
At Marseilles: "The two great crimes charged on those who doomed to
destruction, were here as elsewhere, wealth and aristocracy... It had
been decreed by the Terrorists that no person could have occasion
for more than two hundred livres a year, and that no income should be
permitted to exceed that sum."]

[Footnote 2146: Archives Nationales, F7, 4437. (Address of the people's
club of Caisson (Gard), Messidor 7, year II.) "The Bourgeoisie,
the merchants, the large land-owners have all the pretension of the
ex-nobles. The law provides no means for opening the eyes of the common
people in relation to these new tyrants. The club desires that the
revolutionary tribunal should be empowered to condemn this proud class
of individuals to a prompt partial confinement. The people would then
see that they had committed a misdemeanor and would withdraw that sort
of respect in which they hold them." A note in the hand-writing of
Couthon: "Left to the decision of popular commissions."]

[Footnote 2147: Gouvernor Morris, in a letter of January 4, 1796, says
that French capitalists have been financially ruined by assignats, and
physically by the guillotine.--Buchez et Roux, XXX., 26. (Notes
written by Robespierre in June, 1793.) "Internal dangers come from the
bourgeois... who are our enemies? The vicious and the rich."]

[Footnote 2148: Narrative by M. Sylvester de Sacy (May 23, 1873): His
father owned a farm bringing in four thousand francs per annum; the
farmer offered him four thousand francs in assignats or a hog; M. de
Sacy took the hog.]

[Footnote 2149: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 441. (Report by Cambon on the
institution of the grand livre of public debt, August 15, 1793.)]

[Footnote 2150: Ibid., XXXI., 311. Report by Saint-Just, February 26,
1794, and decree in accordance therewith, unanimously adopted. See, in
particular, article 2.--Moniteur, 12 Ventose, year II. (meeting of the
Jacobin club, speech by Collot d'Herbois). "The Convention has declared
that prisoners must prove that they were patriots from the 1st of May
1789. When the patriots and enemies of the Revolution shall be fully
known, then the propert