) "Priests had every
comfort in their secluded retreats; the sans-culottes in the prisons
slept on straw. The former provided me with mattresses for the
latter." - Ibid., XVIII., 445. (Meeting of the convention, Brumaire
26, year II.) "The Convention decrees that the food of persons kept in
places of confinement shall be simple and the same for all, the rich
paying for the poor."
[113] Archives Nationales. (AF. II., 37, order of Lequinio, Saintes,
Nivose 1, year II.) "Citizens generally in all communes, are requested
to celebrate the day of the decade by a fraternal banquet which,
served without luxury or display . . . will render the man bowed
down with fatique insensible to his forlorn condition; which will fill
the soul of the poor and unfortunate with the sentiment of social
equality and raise man up to the full sense of his dignity; which will
suppress with the rich man the slightest feeling of pride and
extinguish in the public functionary all germs of haughtiness and
aristocracy."
[114] Archives Nationales, AF. II., ii., 48 (Act of Flor?al 25, year
II.) "the Committee of Public Safety request David, representative of
the people, to present his views and plans in relation to modifying
the present national costume, so as to render it appropriate to
republican habits and the character of the Revolution.
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