409.--"Recueil de Pieces Authentiques sur
la Revolution a Strasbourg," I., 65. (List of arrests after Prairial 7,
year II.) "When the following arrests were made there were already over
three thousand persons confined in Strasbourg."--Alfred Lallier, "Les
Noyades de Nantes," p.90.--Berryat Saint-Prix, p.436. (Letter of Maignet
to Couthon, Avignon, Floreal 4, year II.)]

[Footnote 4113: Baulieu, "Essais," V., 283. At the end of December,
1793, Camille Desmoulins wrote: "Open the prison doors to those two
hundred thousand citizens whom you call 'suspects'!"--The number of
prisoners largely increased during the seven following months. ("Le
Vieux Cordelier," No. IV., Frimaire 30, year II.)--Beaulieu does not
state precisely what the committee of General Security meant by the word
detenu. Does it merely relate to those incarcerated? Or must all who
were confined at their own houses be included?--We are able to verify
his statement and determine the number, at least approximatively, by
taking one department in which the rigor of the revolutionary system was
average and where the lists handed in were complete. According to the
census of 1791, Doubs contained two hundred and twenty-one thousand
inhabitants; France had a population of 26 millions, and we have just
seen the number of each category that were under confinement; the
proportion for France gives 258 000 persons incarcerated, and 175 000
confined to their houses, and 175 000 persons besides these on the
limits in their communes, or ajournees, that is to say, 608 000 persons
deprived of their liberty. The first two categories form a total of 433
000 persons, sufficiently near Beaulieu's figures.]

[Footnote 4114: Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," II., 371, 372, 375,
377, 379, 380.--"Les Angoisses de la Mort," by Poirier and Monjay of
Dunkirk (second edition, year III.). "Their children and trusty agents
still remained in prison; they were treated no better than ourselves...
. we saw children coming in from all quarters, infants of five years,
and, to withdraw them from paternal authority, they had sent to them
from time to time, commissioners who used immoral language with them."]

[Footnote 4115: Memoires sur les Prisons," (Barriere et Berville
collection), II., 354, and appendix F. Ibid., II., 2262.--The women
were the first to pass under rapiotage." (Prisons of Arras and that of
Plessis, at Paris.)]

[Footnote 4116: "Documents on Daunou," by Taillandier. (Narrati