a revolutionary guard. The dwellings of the accused and other private
individuals are searched. They force secretaries and wardrobes of which
they do not find the keys. They pillage the gold and silver coin. They
carry off plate, jewels, copper utensils and other effects, bed-clothes,
docks, vehicles, etc. No receipt is given. No statement is made of what
is carried off. They rest content by at the end of the month, reporting,
in a sort of proces-verbal drawn up at a meeting of the committee, that,
according to returns of the visits made, very little plate was found,
and only a little money in gold and silver, all without any calculation
or enumeration."--"Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p.93.
(February 25, 1795.) The meetings of the popular club "were
largely devoted to reading the infamous doings and robberies of the
revolutionary committee.... The members who designated 'suspects' often
arrested them themselves, and drew up a proces-verbal in which they
omitted to state the jewels and gold they found."]

[Footnote 33121: Ibid., 461. (Vendemaire 24, year III. Visit of
Representative Malarme.) The former Duc de Narbonne-Lorra aged
eighty-four, says to Malarme: "Citizen representative, excuse me if I
keep my cap on; I lost my hair in that prison, without having been able
to get permission to have a wig made; it is worse than being robbed on
the road." "Did they steal anything from you?" "They stole one hundred
and forty five louis d'or and paid me with an acquittance for a tax for
the sans-culottes, which is another robbery done to the citizens of this
commune where I have neither home nor possessions." "Who committed
this robbery?" "It was Citizen Berger, of the municipal council."
"Was nothing else taken from you?" "They took a silver coffee-pot, two
soap-cases and a silver shaving-dish" "Who took those articles?" "It was
Citizen Miot (a notable of the council)." Miot confesses to having kept
these objects and not taken them to the Mint.-Ibid., 178. (Ventose 20,
year II.) Prisoners all have their shoes taken, even those who had but
one pair, a promise being made that they should have sabots in exchange,
which they never got. Their cloaks also were taken with a promise to pay
for them, which was never done.--"Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois
d'Evreux," p.92. (February 25, 1795.) "The sessions of the popular
club were largely devoted to reading the infamies and robberies of the
revolutionary committee.