The people would then
see that they had committed a misdemeanor and would withdraw that sort
of respect in which they hold them." A note in the hand-writing of
Couthon: "Left to the decision of popular commissions."
[47] Gouvernor Morris, in a letter of January 4, 1796, says that
French capitalists have been financially ruined by assignats, and
physically by the guillotine. - Buchez et Roux, XXX., 26. (Notes
written by Robespierre in June, 1793.) "Internal dangers come from the
bourgeois. . . who are our enemies? The vicious and the rich."
[48] Narrative by M. Sylvester de Sacy (May 23, 1873): His father
owned a farm bringing in four thousand francs per annum; the farmer
offered him four thousand francs in assignats or a hog; M. de Sacy
took the hog.
[49] Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 441. (Report by Cambon on the institution
of the grand livre of public debt, August 15, 1793.)
[50] Ibid., XXXI., 311. Report by Saint-Just, February 26, 1794, and
decree in accordance therewith, unanimously adopted. See, in
particular, article 2. - Moniteur, 12 Vent?se, year II. (meeting of
the Jacobin club, speech by Collot d'Herbois). "The Convention has
declared that prisoners must prove that they were patriots from the
1st of May 1789.
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