, II., III. An order issued by
Bourbotte, Tours, Messidor 5, year II., "requiring the district
administration to furnish him personally, as well as for the citizens
attached to his commission, forty bottles of red wine and thirty of
white wine, to be taken from the cellars of emigr?s, or from those of
persons condemned to death; and, besides this, fifty bottles of common
wine other than white or red." - On the 2nd of Messidor, ale is drunk
and there is a fresh order for fifty bottles of red wine, fifty of
common wine, and two bottles of brandy. - De Martel, " Fouch?," 419,
420. - Moniteur, XXIV., 604. (Session of Prairial 13, par III.)
"Dugu? reads the list of charges brought against Mallarm?. He is
accused . . . . of having put in requisition whatever pleased him
for his table and for other wants, without paying for anything, not
even for the post-horses and postillions that carried him." - Ibid.
602. Report of Per?s du Gers. "He accuses Dartigoyte . . . of
having taken part with his secretaries in the auction of the furniture
of Daspe, who had been condemned; of having kept the most valuable
pieces for himself, and afterwards fixing their price; of having
warned those who had charge of the sale that confinement awaited
whoever should bid on the articles he destined for himself.
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