t away and, giving her a push, he put her outside the door with a
kick.]

[Footnote 32100: Ibid. A mass of evidence proves, on the contrary, that
people of every class gave their assistance, owing to which the fire was
almost immediately extinguished.]

[Footnote 32101: Ibid. The popular club unanimously attests these facts,
and despatches six delegates to enter a protest at the convention. Up
to the 9th of Thermidor, no relief is granted, while the tax imposed
by Duquesnoy is collected. On the 5th Fructidor, year II., the order of
Duquesnoy is cancelled by the committee of Public Safety, but the money
is not paid back.]

[Footnote 32102: Paris, I., 370. (Words of Duquesnoy to Lebon.)]

[Footnote 32103: Carnot, "Memoires," I., 414. (Letter of Duquesnoy to
the central bureau of representatives at Arras.) The import of these
untranslatable profanities being sufficiently clear I let them stand as
in the original.-Tr.]

[Footnote 32104: "Un Sejour en France," 158, 171.--Manuscript journal of
Mallet du Pan (January, 1795).--Cf. his letters to the convention, the
jokes of jailors and sbirri, for instance.--(Moniteur, XVIII., 214,
Brumaire I, year II.)--Lacretelle, "Dix Annees d'Epreuves," 178. "He
ordered that everybody should dance in his fief of Picardy. They danced
even in prison. Whoever did not dance was "suspect." He insisted on a
rigid observance of the fetes in honor of Reason, and that everybody
should visit the temple of the Goddess each decadi, which was the
cathedral (at Noyon). Ladies, bourgeoises, seamstresses, and cooks, were
required to form what was called the chain of Equality. We dragoons were
forced to be performers in this strange ballet."]

[Footnote 32105: De Martel, "Fouche," 418. (Orders of Albitte and
Collot, Nivose 13, year II.)]

[Footnote 32106: Camille Boursier, "Essai sur la Terreur en Anjou,"
225. Letter of Vacheron, Frimaire 15, year II.) "Republiquain, it is
absolutely necessary, immediately, that you have sent or brought into
the house of the representatives, a lot of red wine, of which the
consumption is greater than ever. People have a right to drink to the
Republic when they have helped to preserve the commune you and yours
live in. I hold you responsible for my demand." Signed, "le republiquain,
Vacheron."]

[Footnote 32107: Ibid., 210. Deposition of Madame Edin, apropos of
Quesnoy, a prostitute, aged twenty-six, Brumaire 12, year III.; and of
Rose, another prostitute. Similar