rder to levy a contribution on honest, credulous
citizens."--Ibid., 217. On voluntary gifts and forced taxation cf. at
Nantes, the use made of revolutionary taxes, brought out on the trial of
the revolutionary committee.]

[Footnote 33113: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 19. Report of Representative
Becker. (Journal des Debats et Decrets, p.743, Prairial, year III.)
He returns from a mission to Landau and renders an account of the
executions committed by the Jacobin agents in the Rhenish provinces.
They levied taxes, sword in hand, and threatened the refractory with the
guillotine at Strasbourg. The receipts which passed under the reporter's
eyes "presented the sum of three millions three hundred and forty-five
thousand seven hundred and eighty-five livres, two deniers, whilst our
colleague, Cambon, reports only one hundred and thirty-eight thousand
paid in."]

[Footnote 33114: Moniteur, XXII., 754. (Report of Gregoire, Frimaire
24, year III.) "Rascallery--this word recalls the old revolutionary
committees, most of which formed the scum of society and which showed so
many aptitudes for the double function of robber and persecutor."]

[Footnote 33115: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 107. (Orders of
Representatives Ysabeau and Tallien, Bordeaux, Brumaire 11 and 17, year
II.)--Third order, promulgated by the same parties, Frimaire 2, year
II., replacing this committee by another of twelve members and six
deputies, each at two hundred francs a month. Fourth order, Pluviose 16,
year II., dismissing the members of the foregoing committee, as exageres
and disobedient. It is because they regard their local royalty in quite
a serious light.-Ibid., AF., II., 46. ("Extracts from the minutes of
the meetings of the revolutionary committee of Bordeaux," Prairial, year
II.) This extract, consisting of eighteen pages, shows in detail the
inside workings of a revolutionary committee the number of arrested goes
on increasing; on the 27th of Prairial there are 1524. The committee is
essentially a police office; it delivers certificates of civism, issues
warrants of arrest, corresponds with other committees, even very remote,
at Limoges, and Clermont-Ferrand, delegates any of its members to make
investigations or domicialiary searches, to affix seals, and it receives
and transmits denunciations, summons the denounced to appear before it,
reads interrogations, writes to the Committee of Public Safety, etc.
The following are samples of its warrants of