omed to take an active part in all political
questions, now seem to take no interest in them."--Roederer, III., 484
(Report on the Senatorerie of Caen, Dec. 1, 1803): "The people of the
rural districts, busy with its new affairs,... are perfectly submissive,
because they now find security for persons and property.. .. They show
no enthusiasm for the monarch, but are full of respect for and trust in
a gendarme; they stop and salute him on passing him on the roads."]

[Footnote 3104: Rocquam, "l'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire." (Report
by Barbe-Marbois, p. 72, 81.) Cash-boxes broken open and exclamations
by the officers "Money and fortune belong to the brave. Let us help
ourselves. Our accounts will be settled at the cannon's mouth."--"The
subordinates," adds Barbe-Marbois, "fully aware of their superior's
drafts on the public treasury, stipulate for their share of the booty;
accustomed to exacting contributions from outside enemies they are not
averse to treating as conquered enemies the departments they were called
upon to defend."]

[Footnote 3105: Ibid. (Reports of Barbe-Marbois and Fourcroy while on
their missions in the 12th and 13th military divisions, year IX., p.158,
on the tranquility of La Vendee.) "I could have gone anywhere without
an escort. During my stay in some of the villages I was not disturbed
by any fear or suspicion whatever.... The tranquility they now enjoy and
the cessation of persecutions keep them from insurrection."]

[Footnote 3106: Archives nationales, F7,3273 (Reports by Gen. Ferino,
Pluviose, year IX, with a table of verdicts by the military commission
since Floreal, year VIII.) The commission mentions 53 assassinations, 3
rapes, 44 pillagings of houses, by brigands in Vaucluse, Drome, and
the Lower Alps; 66 brigands taken in the act are shot, 87 after
condemnation, and 6, who are wounded, die in the hospital.--Rocquain,
ibid., p. 17, (Reports of Francais, from Nantes, on his mission in the
8th military division.) "The South may be considered as purged by the
destruction of about 200 brigands who have been shot. There remains only
three or four bands of 7 or S men each."]

[Footnote 3107: Three classes of insurrectionary peasants or
marauders.--Tr.]

[Footnote 3108: Archives Nationales, F7, 7152 (on the prolongation of
brigandage). Letter from Lhoste, agent, to the minister of justice,
Lyons, Pluviose 8, year VIII. "The diligences are robbed every
week."--Ibid., F7,3267, (Seine-et-Oi