[64] "Souvenirs de M. Hua，" 178-205. "M. P... ， mayor of Crépy-au-Mont， knew how to restrain some low fellows who would have been only too glad to revolutionize his village. . . . And yet he was a republican. . . . One day， speaking of the revolutionary system， he said： 'They always say that it will not hold on； meanwhile， it sticks like lice.' " - "A general assembly of the inhabitants of Coucy and its outskirts was held， in which everybody was obliged to undergo an examination， stating his name， residence， birth-place， present occupation， and what he had done during the Revolution." Hua avoids telling that he had been a representative in the Legislative Assembly， a recognized fact in the neighborhood： "Not a voice was raised to compromise me." - Ibid.， 183. (Reply of the Coucy Revolutionary Committee to that of Meaux.)[65] "Frochot，" by Louis Passy， 175. (Letter of Pajot， member of the Revolutionary committee of Troyes， Vendémiaire， year III.) - Archives Nationales， F.7， 4421. (Register of the Revolutionary committee of Troyes.) Brumaire 27， year II. Incarceration of various suspects， among others of "Lerouge， former lawyer， under suspicion of having constantly and obstinately refused revolutionary offices." Also， a person named Corps， for "having refused the presidency of the district tribunal at the time of its organization， under the pretext of consulting the Chambre des Comptes； also for being the friend of suspects， and for having accepted office only after the Revolution had assumed an imposing character."[66] Marcelin Boudet， "Les conventionnels d'Auvergne，" 161.
(Justification of Etienne Bonarmé， the last months of 1794.)[67] Pans， "Histoire de Joseph Lebon，" II.， 92. (Declaration by Guérard， lawyer， appointed judge at Cambrai， by the Cambrai Revolutionary committee.) - Ibid.， 54. (Declaration by Lemerre， appointed juryman without his knowledge， in the Cambrai court.) "What was my surprise， I， who never was on a jury in my life！ The summons was brought to me at a quarter to eleven (à onze heur moin un car -specimen of the orthography) and I had to go at eleven without having time to say good-by to my family."[68] Report by Courtois on the papers found in Robespierre's domicile， 370. (Letter of Maignet to Payan， administrator of the department of Dr？me， Germinal 20， year II.) "You know the dearth of subjects here .
. . Give me the names of a dozen outspoken republicans . . .
. If you cannot find them in this department (Vaucluse) hunt for them either in the Dr？me or the Isère， or in any other. I should like those adapted to a revolutionary tribunal. I should even like， in case of necessity， to have some that are qualified to act as national agents."[69] Archives des Affaires étrangères， vols. 322 to 334， and 1409 to 1411. - These agents reside in N？mes， Marseilles， Toulouse， Tarbes， Bordeaux， Auch， Rochefort， Brest， Bergues， Givet， Metz， Thionville， Strasbourg， Colmar， Belfort and Grenoble， and often betake themselves to towns in the vicinity. - The fullest reports are those of Chepy， at Grenoble， whose correspondence is worthy of publication； although an ultra Jacobin， he was brought before the revolutionary Tribunal as a moderate， in Vent？se， year II. Having survived (the Revolution) he became under the Empire a general commissary of Police at Brest.
Almost all of them are veritable Jacobins， absolutist at bottom， and they became excellent despotic tools.
[70] Buchez et Roux， XXX.， 425. - Twenty-four commissioners， drawn by lot from the Jacobins of Paris， are associated with Collot d'Herbois.
One of them， Marino， becomes president of the temporary Committee of Surveillance， at Lyons. Another， Parrien， is made president of the Revolutionary Committee. - Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 59.
(Deliberations in the Paris Jacobin club， appointing three of their number to go to Tonnerre and request the Committee of Public Safety "to give them the necessary power， to use it as circumstances may require， for the best good of the Republic." Frimaire 6， year II.) -Order of the Committee of Public Safety， allowing two thousand francs to the said parties for their traveling expenses." - Archives des Affaires étrangères， vol. 333. The agents sent to Marseilles affix their signatures， "sans-culottes， of Paris，" and one of them， Brutus， becomes president of the Marseilles revolutionary tribunal.
[71] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 49. Papers relating to the revolutionary tax of Belfort， giving all the amounts and names.
(Brumaire 30， year II.) Here is the formula： "citizen X. . . (male or female) will pay in one hour the sum of - - ， under penalty of being considered suspect and treated as such." - "Recueil des Pièces Authentiques concernant la Révolution à Strasbourg，" I.， 128， 187.
