"Since our virtue, our
moderation, our philosophic ideas, are of no use to us, let us be
brigands for the good of the people; let us be brigands!"
[5] Babeuf, "Le Tribun du Peuple," No.40. Apologia for the men of
September, "who have only been the priests, the sacrificers of a just
immolation for public security. If anything is to be regretted it is
that a larger and more general Second of September did not sweep away
all starvers and all despoilers."
[6] Granier de Cassagnac, II., 90. (Deposition of Grisel.) Rossignol
said, "That snuff-box is all I have left, here it is so that I may
exist." - "Massard owned a pair of boots which he could not collect
because he had no money with which to pay the shoemaker."
[7] Archives Nationales, Cf. 31167. (Report of Robin, Niv?se 9.):
"The women always had a deliberative voice in the popular assemblies
of the Pantheon section," and in all the other clubs they attended the
meetings.
[8] Moniteur, XIX., 103. (Meeting of the Jacobin club, Dec. 28,
1793.) Dubois-Cranc? introduces the following question to each member
who is subjected to the weeding-out vote: "What have you done that
would get you hung in case of a counter revolution?"
[9] Ibid.
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