d no longer leave his shop without being reviled for his
robberies and hooted at under his Greek and Roman names."]

[Footnote 3355: Barere, "Memoires," II., 324.]

[Footnote 3356: Montieur, XXII., 742. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6,
year II.) Ibid., 22.--Report by Lindet, September 20, 1794): "The land
and navy forces, war and other services, deprive agricultural pursuits
and other professions of more than one million five hundred thousand
citizens. It would cost the Republic less to support six million men
in all the communes."--"Le Departement des Affaires etrangeres," by Fr.
Masson, 382. (According to "Paris a la fin du dix-huitieme siecle," by
Pujoulx, year IX.): "At Paris alone there are more than thirty thousand
(government) clerks; six thousand at the most do the necessary writing;
the rest cut away quills, consume ink and blacken paper. In old times,
there were too many clerks in the bureaux relatively to the work; now,
there are three times as many, and there are some who think that there
are not enough."]

[Footnote 3357: "Souvenirs de M. Hua," a parliamentary advocate, p.96.
(A very accurate picture of the small town Coucy-le-Chateau, in Aisne,
from 1792 to 1794.)--"Archives des Affaires etrangeres," vol.334.
(Letter of the agents, Thionville, Ventose 24, year II.) The district of
Thionville is very patriotic, submits to the maximum and requisitions,
but not to the laws prohibiting outside worship and religious
assemblies. "The apostles of Reason preached in vain to the people,
telling them that, up to this time, they had been deceived and that
now was the time to throw off the yoke of prejudice: 'we are willing to
believe that, thus far, we have been deceived, but who will guarantee us
that you will not deceive us in your turn?'"]

[Footnote 3358: Lagros: "La Revolution telle qu'elle est." (Unpublished
correspondence of the committee of Public Safety, I., 366. Letter of
Prieur de la Marne.) "In general, the towns are patriotic; but the rural
districts are a hundred leagues removed from the Revolution.. ..
Great efforts will be necessary to bring them up to the level of the
Revolution."]

[Footnote 3359: According to the statistics of 1866 (published in 1869)
a district of one thousand square kilometres contains on an average,
thirty-three communes above five hundred souls, twenty-three from five
hundred to one thousand, seventeen bourgs and small towns from one
thousand to five thousand, and one averag