(SR.).
[37] Ludovic Sciout, IV., 426. (Instructions sent by the Directory to
the National Commissions, Frimaire, year II.) - Ibid., ch. X. to
XVIII.
[38] Ibid., IV., 688.An order of the Director, Germinal 14, year VI.
- "The municipal governments will designate special days in each
decade for market days in their respective districts, and not allow,
in any case, their ordinance to be set aside on the plea that the said
market days would fall on a holiday. They will specially strive to
break up all connection between the sales of fish and days of fasting
designated on the old calendar. Every person exposing food or wares
on sale in the markets on days other than those fixed by the municipal
government will be prosecuted in the police court for obstructing a
public thoroughfare." - The Thermidorians remain equally as anti-
Catholic as their predecessors; only, they disavow open persecution
and rely on slow pressure. (Moniteur, XIII., 523. Speech by Boissy
d'Anglas, Vent?se 3, year II.) "Keep an eye on what you cannot hinder;
regulate what you cannot prohibit. . . . It will not be long
before these absurd dogmas, the offspring of fear and error, whose
influence on the human mind has been so steadily destructive, will be
known only to be despised.
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