" On principle, the poor sans-culottes, who are
true at heart and in dress, alone have the right to bear arms, and
should a bourgeois be on duty he must have only a pike, care being
taken to take it away from him the moment he finishes his rounds.[145]
But, alongside of the usual armed force, there is still another, much
better selected and more effective, the reserve gendarmerie, a
special, and, at the same time, movable and resident body, that is to
say, the "revolutionary army," which, after September 5, 1793, the
government had raised in Paris and in most of the large towns. - That
of Paris, comprising six thousand men, with twelve hundred cannoneers,
sends detachments into the provinces - two thousand men to Lyons, and
two hundred to Troyes;[146] Ysabeau and Tallien have at Bordeaux a
corps of three thousand men ; Salicetti, Albitte and Gasparin, one of
two thousand men at Marseilles; Ysor? and Duquesnoy, one of one
thousand men at Lille; Javogues, one of twelve hundred at Montbrison.
Others, less numerous, ranging from six hundred down to two hundred
men, hold Moulins, Grenoble, Besan?on, Belfort, Bourg, Dijon,
Strasbourg, Toulouse, Auch and Nantes.
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