is much greater, and finally reaches a
thousand. (Beaulieu, "Essais," V., l10.)--The same plan comprehends
fifteen agents at two thousand four hundred francs, "selected from the
frequenters of the clubs," to revise the daily morning lists; thirty at
one thousand francs, for watching popular clubs, and ninety to twelve
hundred francs for watching the section assemblies.]

[Footnote 3333: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4436. (Letter of Bouchotte,
Minister of war, Prairial 5, year II.) "The appointment of Ronsin, as
well as of all his staff, again excited public opinion. The Committee,
to assure itself, sent the list to the Jacobin club, where they were
accepted."--Ibid., AF.,II., 58. "Paris, Brumaire II, year II., club of
the Friends of Liberty and Equality, in session at the former Jacobin
club, rue St. Honore. List of the citizens who are to set out for Lyons
and act as national commissioners. (Here follow their names.) All the
citizens designated have undergone the inspection of the said club, at
its meeting this day." (Here follow the signatures of the President and
three secretaries.)--"Journal des Debats et Correspondence de la Societe
des Jacobins, No.543, 5th day of the 3rd month of the year II.--In
relation to the formation of a new Central club, "Terrasson is of
opinion that this club may become liberticide, and demands a committee
to examine into it and secure its extinction. The committee demanded by
Terrasson is appointed."--It is evident that they hold on energetically
to this monopoly.--Cf. Moniteur, XIX., 637. (Ventose 13.) Motion adopted
in the Jacobin club, obliging the ministers to turn out of office any
individual excluded from the club.]

[Footnote 3334: Dauban, ibid., 307. (Report of Germinal 9.)]

[Footnote 3335: Moniteur, XXII. 353. (Session of Brumaire 20, year III.
Reclamation made by M. Belanger at the bar of the Convention.)]

[Footnote 3336: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 40. (Acts passed by the
Committee of Public Safety at the dates indicated.) Beaulieu, "Essais,"
v., 200. (Ibid.) The registers of the Committee of Public Safety contain
a number of similar gratuities paid to provincial clubs and patriots,
for instance, AF., II. 58, (Brumaire 8), fifty thousand francs to
Laplanche, and, (Brumaire 9), fifty thousand francs to Couthon, "to
maintain public spirit in Calvados, to revive public spirit in Lyons,
to aid, as required, the less successful patriots who zealously devote
their time to the