18th, and
decree in conformity therewith.) - Ib., 479 (session of Nov. 22nd,
1793,.- Speech of H?brard, spokesman of a deputation from Cantal). "A
central committee of surveillance, a revolutionary army, has been
established in our department. Aristocrats, suspects, the doubtful,
moderates, egoists, all gentlemen without distinguishing those who
have done nothing for the revolution from those who have acted against
it, await in retirement the ulterior measures required by the
interests of the Republic. I have said without distinction of the
indifferent from the suspects; for we hold to these words of Solon's:
" He who is not with us is against us."
[113] The trousers used in pre-Revolutionary France by the nobility
was called culottes, they terminated just below the knee where the
long cotton or silken stockings would begin. The less affluent used
long trousers and no socks and became known as the Sans-culottes which
became , as mentioned in vol. II. a nickname for the revolutionary
proletariat. (SR.)
[114] Moniteur, (Speech by Danton, March 26, 1794.) "In creating
revolutionary committees the desire was to establish a species of
dictatorship of citizens the most devoted to liberty over those who
rendered themselves suspects.
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