ux.--Seal breakers at Lyons.
--Monopolizers of national possessions.--Sales of personal
property.--Embezzlements and Frauds.-A proces-verbal in the
office of the mayor of Strasbourg.--Sales of real-estate.
--Commissioners on declarations at Toulouse.--The
administrative staff and clubs of buyers in Provence.--The
Revolutionary Committee of Nantes.

But when we regard the final and last set of officials of the
revolutionary government closely, in the provinces as well as at Paris,
we find among them we hardly anyone who is noteworthy except in vice,
dishonesty and misconduct, or, at the very least, in stupidity and
grossness.--First, as is indicated by their name, they all must be, and
nearly all are, sans-culottes, that is to say, men who live from day to
day on their daily earnings, possessing no income from capital, confined
to subordinate places, to petty trading, to manual services, lodged
or encamped on the lowest steps of the social ladder, and therefore
requiring pay to enable them to attend to public business;[3387] it is
on this account that decrees and orders allow them wages of three,
five, six, ten, and even eighteen francs a day.--At Grenoble, the
representatives form the municipal body and the revolutionary committee,
along with two health-officers, three glovers, two farmers, one
tobacco-merchant, one perfumer, one grocer, one belt-maker, one
innkeeper, one joiner, one shoemaker, one mason, while the official
order by which they are installed, appoints "Teyssiere, licoriste,"
national agent.[3388]--At Troyes,[3389] among the men in authority we
find a confectioner, a weaver, a journeyman-weaver, a hatter, a hosier,
a grocer, a carpenter, a dancing-master, and a policeman, while the
mayor, Gachez, formerly a private soldier in the regiment of Vexin, was,
when appointed, a school-teacher in the vicinity.--At Toulouse,[3390]
a man named Terrain, a pate dealer, is installed as president of the
administration; the revolutionary committee is presided over by Pio,
a journeyman-barber; the inspiration, "the soul of the club," is a
concierge, that of the prison.--The last and most significant trait is
found at Rochefort,[3391] where the president of the popular club is the
executioner.--If such persons form the select body of officials in the
large towns, what must they be in the small ones, in the bourgs and
in the villages?" Everywhere they are of the meanest"[3392] cartmen,
sabot-