. . . Public spirit
at Bergues is dead; fanaticism rules." - Archives Nationales, F7, 7164
(Department of Var, reports of year V. "General idea.") - "At
Draguignan, out of seven thousand souls, forty patriots, exclusifs,
despised or dishonest; at Vidauban, nine or ten exclusifs, favored by
the municipality and who live freely without their means being known;
at Brignolles, frequent robberies on the road by robbers said to have
been very patriotic in the beginning of the Revolution: people are
afraid of them and dare not name them; at Fr?jus, nine leading
exclusifs who pass all their time in the cafe." - Berryat-Saint-Prix,
"La Justice R?volutionnaire," p. 146. - Brutus Thierry, grocer,
member of the Rev. Com. Of Angers, said that "in angers, there were
not sixty revolutionaries."
[22] Macaulay. "History of England," I., 152. "The Royalists
themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the
discarded warriors prospered beyond other men, that none was charged
with any theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and
that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his
diligence and sobriety, he was in all probability one of Oliver's old
soldiers.
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