8, year II.--Berryat Saint-Prix, 285. Letter
of Representative Blutel, on mission at Rochefort, after Thermidor: "A
few men, sunk in debauchery and crime, dared proscribe (here) virtues,
patriotism, because it was not associated with their sanguinary
excitement: the tree of Liberty, they said, required for its roots ten
feet of human gore."]

[Footnote 4142: "Recueil de Pieces Authentiques, concernant le
Revolution a Strasbourg," I., 174, 178. Examples of revolutionary
taxes.--Orders of Representatives Milhaud, Ruamps, Guyadin, approving of
the following contributions, Brumaire 20, year II.

On 3 individuals of Stutzheim......150,000 livres.
" 3 " Offenheim....................30,000 "
" 21 " Molsheim.....................367,000 "
" 17 " Oberenheim....................402,000 "
" 84 " Rosheim.......................503,000 "
" 10 " Mutzig........................114,000 "]

Another order by Daum and Tisseraud, members of the committee who
temporarily replace the district administrators: "Whereas, it is owing
to the county aristocrats that the Republic supports the war," they
approve of the following taxes:

On the aristocrats of Geispolzheim, 400,000 livres.
ditto of Oberschoeffolsheim 200,000 "
ditto of Duettlenheim 150,000 "
ditto of Duppigheim 100,000 "
ditto of Achenheim 100,000 "]

List of contributions raised in the rural communes of the district of
Strasbourg, according to an assessment made by Stamm, procureur pro tem.
of the district, amounting to three millions one hundred and ninety-six
thousand one hundred livres.]

[Footnote 4143: "Recueil des Pieces Authentiques," etc., I., 23. By
order of the representatives under date of Brumaire 25, year II. "The
municipality of Strasbourg stripped the whole commune of shoes in
twenty-four hours, sending for them from house to house."--Ibid.. p.32.
Orders of Representatives Lemaire and Baudot, Frimaire I, year II.,
declaring that kitchen-utensils, boilers, sauce-pans, stew-pans, kettles
and other copper and lead vessels, as well as copper and lead not
worked-up, found at Strasbourg and in the departments, be levied
on."--Archives Nationales, AF., I., 92. (Orders of Taillefer, Brumaire
3, year II. Villefranche 1'Avergnon.) Formation of a Committee of ten
persons directed to make domiciliary visits, and authorized to take
possession of all the iron, lead, steel and copper found in the houses
of "suspects," all o