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Orders of the Committee of Public Safety, Pluviose 23, referring to the law of Brumaire 25, forbidding the extraction of more than fifteen pounds of bran from a quintal of flour. Order directing the removal of bolters from bakeries and mills; he who keeps or conceals these on his property "shall be treated as 'suspect' and put under arrest until peace is declared." Berryat Saint Prix, 357, 362.
His pockets were full of ears, which he took delight in making the women kiss. He exposed other things which he made them kiss and the woman Laillet adds certain details which I dare not transcribe." Deposition of the woman Laillet, fish-dealer, also the testimony of Mellinet, vol. They have ten francs a day, and full powers conferred on them. Berryat Saint-Prix, p. 42.
"Recueil de Pieces Authentiques sur la Revolution a Strasbourg," I., 65. Alfred Lallier, "Les Noyades de Nantes," p.90. Berryat Saint-Prix, p.436. 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.
His mother became crazy and was put in an asylum. Cf. 85. "Citizen Chamonart, wine-dealer, standing at the entrance of his cellar, sees the representative pass, looks at him and does not salute him. Berryat Saint-Prix, 34. "Carrier, says the gendarme Desquer, who carried his letters, was a roaring lion rather than an officer of the people."
At Bordeaux, a huge scaffold is put up, authorized by the Military Committee, with seven doors, two of which are large and like barn-doors, called a four-bladed guillotine, so as to work faster and do more. The warrant and orders for its construction bear date Thermidor 3 and 8, year II. Berryat Saint-Prix, 285. Examples of revolutionary taxes.
This same Francastel wrote to General Grignon: "Make those brigands tremble! Give them no quarter! The prisons in Vendee are overflowing with prisoners!... The conversion of this country into a desert must be completed. Let the guillotine stand permanently throughout the Republic. Five millions of inhabitants are enough for France!" Berryat Saint-Prix, 445. What a trifle!" Ibid., 447. Ibid., 311.
In connection with the "dainty taste" of Jacobins for silk dresses M. Berryat Saint-Prix cites the following answer of a Jacobin of 1851 to the judge d'instruction of Rheims; on the objection being made to him that the Republic, as he understood it, could not last long, he replied: "Possibly, but say it lasts three months.
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