ittees are to draw up the lists.

Occasionally, in a town, some steps taken collectively, either a vote or
petition, furnish a ready-made list;[41116] it suffices to read this to
know who are notables, the most upright people of the place; henceforth,
under the pretext of political repression, the levellers may give free
play to their social hatred.--At Montargis, nine days after the attempt
of June 20, 1792,[41117] two hundred and twenty-eight notables sign an
address in testimony of their respectful sympathy for the King; a year
and nine months later, in consequence of a retroactive stroke, all are
hit, and, with the more satisfaction, inasmuch as in their persons the
most respected in the town fall beneath the blow, all whom flight
and banishment had left there belonging to the noble, ecclesiastic,
bourgeois or popular aristocracy. Already, "on the purification of the
constituted authorities of Montargis, the representative had withdrawn
every signer from places of public trust and kept them out of all
offices." But this is not sufficient; the punishment must be more
exemplary. Four of them, the ex-mayor, an ex-collector, a district
administrator and a notable are sent to the revolutionary Tribunal in
Paris, to be guillotined in deference to principles. Thirty-two former
officers--chevaliers of St. Louis, mousquetaires, nobles, priests, an
ex-procureur-royal, an ex-treasurer of France, a former administrator
of the department, and two ladies, one of them designated as "calling
herself a former marchioness"--are confined, until peace is secured, in
the jail at Montargis. Other former municipal officers and officers in
the National Guard--men of the law, notaries and advocates, physicians,
surgeons, former collectors, police commissioners, postmasters,
merchants and manufacturers, men and women, married or widows and
widowers--are to make public apology and be summoned to the Temple of
Reason to undergo there the humiliation of a public penance on the
20th of Ventose at three o'clock in the afternoon. They all go, for
the summons says, "whoever does not present himself on the day and
hour named will be arrested and confined until peace is declared." On
reaching the church, purified by Jacobin adoration, "in the presence
of the constituted authorities of the popular club and of the citizens
convoked in general assembly," they mount one by one into a tribune
raised three steps above the floor," in such a way as to be in f