, demanding that
Paris Jacobins be sent to him at Lyons.) " If I could have asked for
our old ones I should have done. . . but they are necessary at
Paris, almost all of them having been made mayors."
[30] Meissner, "Voyage ? Paris," (at the end of 1795,) 160. "Persons
who can neither read nor write obtain the places of accountants of
more or less importance."? Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol.
324. (Denunciations of Pio to the club, against his colleagues.) -
Dauban, ibid., 35. (Note by Quevremont, Jan., 1794.): "The honest man
who knows how to work cannot get into the ministerial bureaux,
especially those of the War and Navy departments, as well as those of
the Commune and of the Departments, without having a lump in his
throat. - Offices are mostly filled by creatures of the Commune who
very often have neither talent nor integrity. Again, the
denunciations, always welcomed, however frivolous and baseless they
may be, turn everything upside down.
[31] Moniteur, XXIV., 397 (Speech of Dubois-Cranc? in the Convention
Flor?al 16, year III.) - Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Report by
Rolin, Niv?se 7, year II.) "The same complaints are heard against the
civil Commissioners of the section, most of whom are unintelligent,
not even knowing how to read.
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