arrest: "Muller, a
riding-master, will be confined in the former Petit Seminaire, under
suspicion of aristocracy, according to public opinion."--Another
example, (Archives Nationales, F.7, 2475. Register of the proces-verbaux
of the revolutionary committee of the Piques section, Paris, June
3, 1793.) Warrant of arrest against Boucher, grocer, rue Neuve du
Luxembourg, "suspect" of incivisme and "having cherished wicked and
perfidious intentions against his wife." Boucher, arrested, declares
that, "what he said and did in his own house, concerned nobody but
himself." On which he was led to prison.]

[Footnote 33116: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 30 (No.105). Examination
of Jean Davilliers, and other ransomed parties.]

[Footnote 33117: Berryat Saint-Prix, 313. (Trial of Lacombe and his
accomplices after Thermidor.)]

[Footnote 33118: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 46. (Letter of Julien
to the Committee of Public Safety, Bordeaux, Messidor 12, year
II.)--Moniteur, XXII., 713. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6, year III.)
At Verins, citizens were imprisoned and then set at liberty "on
consideration of a fee."--Albert Babeau, II., 164, 165, 206. (Report
by Cambon, Frimaire 6, year II.) "Citoyenne (madame) Deguerrois,
having come to procure the release of her husband, a public functionary
demanded of her ten thousand livres, which he reduced to six thousand
for doing what she desired."--"One document attests that Massey paid two
thousand livres, and widow Delaporte six hundred livres, to get out of
prison."]

[Footnote 33119: Mallet-Dupan, "First letter to a Genoa merchant,"
(March I, 1796), pp.33-35. "One of the wonders of the reign of Terror
is the slight attention given to the trafficking in life and death,
characteristic of terrorism.... We scarcely find a word on the countless
bargains through which 'suspect' citizens bought themselves out of
captivity, and imprisoned citizens bought off the guillotine. ...
Dungeons and executions were as much matters of trade as the purchase of
cattle at a fair." This traffic "was carried on in all the towns,
bourgs and departments surrendered to the Convention and Revolutionary
Committees.".... "It has been established since the 10th of August."
"I will only cite among a multitude of instances the unfortunate Duc
du Chatelet: never did anybody pay more for his execution!"--Wallon,
"Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionnaire de Paris," VI., 88. (Denunciation
of Fouquier-Tinville, signed Sa