epublican.... One day, speaking of the revolutionary system, he said:
'They always say that it will not hold on; meanwhile, it sticks like
lice.' "--"A general assembly of the inhabitants of Coucy and its
outskirts was held, in which everybody was obliged to undergo an
examination, stating his name, residence, birth-place, present
occupation, and what he had done during the Revolution." Hua avoids
telling that he had been a representative in the Legislative Assembly,
a recognized fact in the neighborhood: "Not a voice was raised to
compromise me."--Ibid., 183. (Reply of the Coucy Revolutionary Committee
to that of Meaux.)]

[Footnote 3365: "Frochot," by Louis Passy, 175. (Letter of Pajot,
member of the Revolutionary committee of Troyes, Vendemiaire, year
III.)--Archives Nationales, F.7, 4421. (Register of the Revolutionary
committee of Troyes.) Brumaire 27, year II. Incarceration of various
suspects, among others of "Lerouge, former lawyer, under suspicion of
having constantly and obstinately refused revolutionary offices." Also,
a person named Corps, for "having refused the presidency of the
district tribunal at the time of its organization, under the pretext
of consulting the Chambre des Comptes; also for being the friend of
suspects, and for having accepted office only after the Revolution had
assumed an imposing character."]

[Footnote 3366: Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d'Auvergne," 161.
(Justification of Etienne Bonarme, the last months of 1794.)]

[Footnote 3367: Pans, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," II., 92. (Declaration
by Guerard, lawyer, appointed judge at Cambrai, by the Cambrai
Revolutionary committee.)--Ibid., 54. (Declaration by Lemerre, appointed
juryman without his knowledge, in the Cambrai court.) "What was my
surprise, I, who never was on a jury in my life! The summons was brought
to me at a quarter to eleven (a onze heur moin un car--specimen of
the orthography) and I had to go at eleven without having time to say
good-by to my family."]

[Footnote 3368: Report by Courtois on the papers found in Robespierre's
domicile, 370. (Letter of Maignet to Payan, administrator of the
department of Drome, Germinal 20, year II.) "You know the dearth of
subjects here. .. Give me the names of a dozen outspoken republicans...
. If you cannot find them in this department (Vaucluse) hunt for them
either in the Drome or the Isere, or in any other. I should like those
adapted to a revolutionary tribunal. I should