d.... The leaders of the party
disposed of these sums without control and, it may be added, without
scruple; Gachez hands over only four thousand livres to the sectional
poor-committee. On Nivose 12, there remains in the treasury of the poor
fund only 3738 livres, 12 000 having been diverted or squandered."]

[Footnote 33101: "Frochot," by Louis Passy, 172. (Letter of Pajot,
member of the revolutionary committee of Aignay-le-Duc.) "Denunciations
occupied most of the time at our meetings, and it is there that one
could see the hatreds and vengeance of the colleagues who ruled us."]

[Footnote 33102: Archives Nationales, D., P I, No.4. The following is a
sample among others of the impositions of the revolutionary committees.
(Complaint of Mariotte, proprietor, former mayor of Chatillon-sur-Seine,
Floreal 27, year II.) "On Brumaire 23, year II., I was stopped just as
I was taking post at Mussy, travelling on business for the Republic, and
provided with a commission and passport from the Minister of war.... I
was searched in the most shameful manner; citizen Menetrier, member of
the committee, used towards me the foulest language.... I was confined
in a tavern; instead of two gendarmes which would have been quite
sufficient to guard me, I had the whole brigade, who passed that night
and the next day drinking, until, in wine and brandy the charge against
me in the tavern amounted to sixty francs. And worse still, two members
of the same committee passed a night guarding me and made me pay for
it. Add to this, they said openly before me that I was a good pigeon to
pluck. ... They gave me the escort of a state criminal of the highest
importance, three national gendarmes, mounted, six National Guards, and
even to the Commandant of the National Guard; citizen Miedan, member of
the revolutionary committee, put himself at the head of the cortege, ten
men to conduct one!.... I was obliged to pay my torturers, fifty francs
to the commandant, and sixty to his men."]

[Footnote 33103: Moniteur, XXI., 261. (Speech by an inhabitant of Troyes
in the Jacobin Club, Paris, Messidor 26, year II.)]

[Footnote 33104: Albert Babeau, II., 164. (Depositions of the
tavern-keeper and of the commissioner, Garnier.)]

[Footnote 33105: "Frochot," by Louis Passy, 170, 172. (Letter by Pajot
and petition of the Aignay municipality, March 10, 1795.)--Bibliotheque
Nationale, L., 41. No.1802. (Denunciation by six sections of the commune
of Dijon to the