s
indemnity, which merely serves them for drink to make them very
noisy."--"The people complain, because the persons to whom the forty
sous are given, to attend the section assemblies do nothing all day,
being able to work at different trades.... and they relay upon these
forty sous."]

[Footnote 3326: Dauban, ibid., 312. (Note by Quevremont.)--Moniteur,
XVIII., 568, (Meeting of the commune, Frimaire 11, year II.): "The
Beaurepaire section advertises that wishing to put a stop to the
cupidity of the wine-dealers of the arrondissement, it has put seals on
all their cellars."]

[Footnote 3327: Dauban, ibid., 345. (Order of the day by Henriot,
Floreal 9.)]

[Footnote 3328: Mallet-Dupan, II., 56. (March, 1794.)]

[Footnote 3329: Buchez et Roux, XXVII., 10. (Speech by Barbaroux, May
14, 1793.)--Report on the papers found in Robespierre's apartment
by Courtois, 285. (Letter by Collot d'Herbois Frimaire 3, year II.,
demanding that Paris Jacobins be sent to him at Lyons.) "If I could have
asked for our old ones I should have done... but they are necessary at
Paris, almost all of them having been made mayors."]

[Footnote 3330: Meissner, "Voyage a Paris," (at the end of 1795,) 160.
"Persons who can neither read nor write obtain the places of accountants
of more or less importance."? Archives des Affaires etrangeres,
vol. 324. (Denunciations of Pio to the club, against his
colleagues.)--Dauban, ibid., 35. (Note by Quevremont, Jan., 1794.):
"The honest man who knows how to work cannot get into the ministerial
bureaux, especially those of the War and Navy departments, as well as
those of the Commune and of the Departments, without having a lump in
his throat.--Offices are mostly filled by creatures of the Commune who
very often have neither talent nor integrity. Again, the denunciations,
always welcomed, however frivolous and baseless they may be, turn
everything upside down."]

[Footnote 3331: Moniteur, XXIV., 397 (Speech of Dubois-Crance in the
Convention Floreal 16, year III.)--Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167.
(Report by Rolin, Nivose 7, year II.) "The same complaints are heard
against the civil Commissioners of the section, most of whom are
unintelligent, not even knowing how to read."]

[Footnote 3332: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 1411. (August,
1793.) "Plan adopted" for the organization of the Police, "excepting
executive modifications." In fact, some months later, the number of
claqueurs, male and female,