them."--He ate little, drank like an ogre, and was talkative about his
amours; getting carried away he got so close to being naughty that he
upset my wife, without actually going to far. Apropos of the Revolution,
and the danger we incurred, he said innocently: "Don't I run as much
risk as anybody? It is my opinion that, in three months, I shall have my
head off! But we must all take our chance!"--Now and then, he indulged
in sans-culottisms. He seized the servant's hand, who changed his plate:
"Brother, I beg you to take my place, and let me wait on you in my
turn "--He drank the cordials, and finally left, pleased with his
reception.--Returning to the inn, he stays until nine o'clock at night
and stuffs himself, but is not intoxicated. One bottle had no effect on
him; he could empty a cask and show no signs of it.]

[Footnote 33110: Moniteur, XXII., 425. (Session of Brumaire 13, year
III.) Cambon, in relation to the revolutionary committees, says: "I
would observe to the Assembly that they were never paid." A member
replies: "They took their pay themselves." ("Yes, yes."--Applause.)]

[Footnote 33111: Moniteu, XXII., 711. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6,
year III.)--Cambon stated, indeed, Frimaire 26, year II., (Moniteur,
XVIII., 680), concerning these taxes "Not one word, not one sou has yet
reached the Treasury; they want to override the Convention which made
the Revolution."]

[Footnote 33112: Ibid., 720. "The balances reported, of which the
largest portion is already paid into the vaults of the National
Treasury, amount to twenty millions one hundred and sixty-six thousand
three hundred and thirty livres."--At Paris, Marseilles, and Bordeaux,
in the large towns where tens of millions were raised in three-quarters
of the districts, Cambon, three months after Thermidor, could not yet
obtain, I will not say the returns, but a statement of the sums raised.
The national agents either did not reply to him, or did it vaguely,
or stated that in their districts there was neither civic donation nor
revolutionary tax, and particularly at Marseilles, where a forced
loan had been made of four millions.--Cf. De Martel, "Fouche," P.245.
(Memorial of the central administration of Nievre, Prairial 19, year
III.) "The account returned by the city of Nevers amounts to eighty
thousand francs, the use of which has never been verified.... This
tax, in part payment of the war subsidy, was simply a trap laid by the
political actors in o