nished to him, he works with a
will and without stopping.[3281]

First comes a purification of all the local authorities. They must
always remember that "there can be no exaggeration in behalf of the
people; he who is not imbued with this principle, who has not put it in
practice, cannot remain on an advanced post;"[3282] consequently, at the
popular club, in the department, in the district, in the municipality,
all doubtful men are excluded, discharged, or incarcerated; if a few
weak ones are retained provisionally, or by favor, they are berated and
taught their duty very summarily:

"They will strive, by a more energetic and assiduous patriotism, to
atone for the evil committed by them in not doing all the good they
could do."

Sometimes, through a sudden change of scene, the entire administrative
staff is kicked out so as to give place to a no less complete staff,
which the same kick brings up out of the ground. Considering that
"everything stagnates in Vaucluse, and that a frightful moderation
paralyses the most revolutionary measures," Maignet, in one order[3283]
appoints the administrators and secretary of the department, the
national agent, the administrators and council-general of the district,
the administrators, council-general and national agent of Avignon, the
president, public prosecutor and recorder of the criminal court,
members of the Tribunal de Commerce, the collector of the district, the
post-master and the head of the squadron of gendarmerie. And the new
functionaries will certainly go to work at once, each in his office.
The summary process, which has brusquely swept away the first set of
puppets, is going to brusquely install the second one. "Each citizen
appointed to any of the above mentioned offices, shall betake himself
immediately to his post, under penalty of being declared suspect,"
on the simple notification of his appointment. Universal and passive
obedience of governors, as well as of the governed! There are no more
elected and independent functionaries; all the authorities, confirmed or
created by the representative, are in his hands; there is not one among
them who does not subsist or survive solely through his favor; there is
not one of them who acts otherwise than according to his approval or
by his order. Directly, or through them, he makes requisitions,
sequestrates or confiscates as he sees fit, taxes, imprisons, transports
or decapitates as he see fit, and, in his circumscripti