service of their country."]

[Footnote 3337: Dauban, ibid., 171, (report of Ventose 17), and 243,
(report of Ventose 25), on the civil-committees and revolutionary
committees, who order meat served to them before serving it to the sick,
and who likewise serve the good friends of their wives.? Ibid., 146.
(Report of Ventose 10.)... Archives Nationales F.7, 2475. (Register of
the deliberations of the revolutionary committee of the Piques sections,
Brumaire 27, year II.) "The Committee orders that the two-horse cab
belonging to Lemarche be henceforth at the service of the section and
of the Committee when measures of security are concerned." In this
register, and others of the same series, we clearly see the inside of
a committee and its vast despotism. Style and orthography, with almost
all, are of the same low order.]

[Footnote 3338: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 1411. (Report of
Aug.21 and 22, 1793.) "General Henriot sent me several.... who made use
of the authority of the Committee of Public Safety and General Security,
as well as of that which he delegated to me, to make domiciliary visits
at the houses of individuals who were not assured patriots; but that did
not warrant their receiving money and even abstracting it."]

[Footnote 3339: Dauban, ibid., 36 and 48. (Case of the Notary,
Brichard.)]

[Footnote 3340: Cf. "The Revolution," II., 302, 303.--Mercier, "Paris
pendant la Revolution," I., 151.--Moniteur, XVIII., 660. (Session of
Frimaire 24, speech by Lecomtre in the Convention.)--On robberies and
the bribes paid, see, among other documents, "Memoires sur les Prisons,"
I., 290. (Eighty thousand francs of bribes given to the head of the
police force by Perisial, keeper of an eating-house, for the privilege
of feeding prisoners in St. Lazare.)]

[Footnote 3341: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 77. (Trial of Fouquier-Tinville.)
Testimony of Robillard: "Another day, in the general assembly, he struck
a citizen with his saber."]

[Footnote 3342: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 407. (Lists in Robespierre's
handwriting.)]

[Footnote 3343: Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I., 46-51.-Buchot is not
the only one of his species in the ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the
archives of this ministry, vol. 324, may be found the sayings and
doings of a certain Pio, an Italian refugee who slipped into the place,
simulating poverty, and displaying patriotism, and who denounces his
chief and colleagues.-The ex-notary Pigeot, condemned to tw