书城公版The Origins of Contemporary France
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"Several of our colleagues have even decreed the death penalty against whoever did not bring their gold and silver within a given time."[9] Archives Nationales, AF. II., 106. (Order by representative Beauchamp, l'Isle Jourdan, Pluviose 2, year II.) "All blue and green cloaks in the departments of Haute-Garonne, as well as of the Landes, Gers and others, are put in requisition from the present day. Every citizen possessing blue or green cloaks is required to declare them at the depot of municipality or other locality where he may chance to be." If not, he is considered "suspect" is treated as such. - Ibid., AF.II., 92 (Order issued by Taillefer, Brumaire 3, year II., at Villefranche-l'Aveyron). - De Martel, "Etude sur Fouché," 368.

(Order by Fouché, Collot d'Herbois and Delaporte: Lyons, Brumaire 21, year II.) - Moniteur, XVIII., 384. (Session of 19th Brumaire. Letter of Barras and Fréron, dated at Marseilles.) - Moniteur XVIII., 513(Orders by Lebon and Saint-Just, at Strasbourg, Brumaire 24 and 25, year II.) Letter of Isoré to the minister Bouchotte, November 4, 1793.

(Legros, "La Revolution telle qu'elle est.") The principle of these measures was laid down by Robespierre in his speech on property (April 24, 1793), and in his declaration of rights unanimously adopted by the Jacobin Club (Buchez et Roux, XXVI., 93 and 130).

[10] Rousset, "Les Volontaires," p. 234 and 254.

[11] Report by Cambon, Pluviose 3, year III., p.3. "One fifth of the active population is employed in the common defense." - Decree of May 12, and Aug. 23, 1793. - Decree of November 22, 1793. - Order of the Directory, October 18, 1798.

[12] Moniteur, XIX., 631. Decree of Vent?se 14, year II. Archives Nationales, D.SI., 10. (Orders by representatives Delacroix, Louchet and Legendre; Pont-Audemer, Frimaire 14, year II.) - Moniteur, XVIII, 622. - (Decree of Frimaire 18, year II.)[13] Lenin must have read Taine's text during his long studious stay in Paris. He and Stalin did, in any case try to let the USSR function in accordance with such central allocated planning. (SR.)[14] Decree of 15-18 Floréal, year II. Decree of September 29, 1793, (in which forty objects of prime necessity are enumerated. - Article 9 decrees three days imprisonment against workmen and manufacturers who "without legitimate reason, shall refuse to do their ordinary task." - Decrees of September 16 and 20, 1793, and that of September 11, articles 16,19, 20 and 21.

[15] Archives Nationales, AF. II., III. Order of the representative Ferry; Bourges, 23 Messidor, year II. - Ibid., AF. II., 106. Order of the representative Dartigoyte, Auch, Prairial 18, year II.

[16] Decree of Brumaire 11, year II., article 7.

[17] Gouvion Saint Cyr, "Mémoires sur les campagnes de 1792 à la paix de Campo-Formio," I., 91-109: "Promotion, which every one feared at this time." . . . Ibid. 229. "Men who had any resources obstinately held aloof from any kind of advancement." Archives Nationales, DS. I, 5. (Mission of representative Albert in L'Aube and La Marne, and especially the order issued by Albert, Chalons, Germinal 7, year III., with the numerous petitions of judges and town officers soliciting their removal. - Letter of the painter Gosse (published in Le Temps, May 31, 1872), which is very curious, showing the trials of those in private life during the Revolution: "My father was appointed charity commissioner and quartermaster for the troops;at the time of the Reign of Terror it would have been imprudent to have refused any office" - Archives Nationales, F7, 3485. The case of Girard Toussaint, notary at Paris, who "fell under the sword of the law, Thermidor 9, year II." This Girard, who was very liberal early in the revolution, was president of his section in 1789, but, after the 10th of August, he had kept quiet. The committee of the section of the "Amis de la Patrie," "considering that citizen Girard . . . .

came forward only at the time when the court and Lafayette prevailed against the sans-culottes;" that, "since equality was established by the Revolution he has deprived his fellow citizens of his knowledge, which, in a revolution, is criminal, unanimously agree that the said citizen is "suspect" and order "him to be sent to the Luxembourg."[18] Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile du clergé,"IV., 131, 135. (Orders issued by Dartigoyte and de Pinet). -"Recueil de pieces authentiques serrant à l'histoire de la révolution à Strasbourg." Vol. I. p. 230. (Speech by Schneider at Barr, for marrying the patriot Funck.) Schneider, it appears, did still better on his own account. (Ibid., 317).

[19] Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 160. (Report of Saint-Just, October 20, 1793.) "You have to punish not only traitors, but even the indifferent; you must punish all in the Republic who are passive and do nothing for it."[20] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 338. Report of the Convention on the theory of democratic government, by Billaud-Varennes (April 20, 1794).

[21] Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 270. Report by Robespierre, on the principles which should guide the National Convention in the internal administration of the Republic, February 5, 1794.- Cf. "The ancient Régime," 227-230, the ideas of Rousseau, of which those of Robespierre are simply a recast.