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[54] Schmidt, "Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Fran?aise," II.,
248, 249. (Agent's reports, Frimaire 8, year 111.) "The prosecution
of Carrier is approved by the public, likewise the condemnation of the
former revolutionary committee called the "BonnetRouge." Ten of its
members are condemned to twenty years in irons. The public is
overjoyed." - Ibid., (Frimaire 9), "The people rushed in crowds to the
square of the old commune building to see the members of the former
revolutionary committee of the Bonnet-Rouge sections, who remained
seated on the bench until six o'clock, in the light of flambeaux.
They had to put up with many reproaches and much humiliation." - "Un
Sejour en France," 286, (June 6, 1795). "I have just been interrupted
by a loud noise and cries under my window; I heard the names Scipio
and Solon distinctly pronounced in a jeering and insulting tone of
voice. I sent Angelique to see what was the matter and she tells me
that it is a crowd of children following a shoemaker of the
neighborhood who was member of a revolutionary committee. . . and
had called himself Scipio Solon. As he had been caught in several
efforts at stealing he could no longer leave his shop without being
reviled for his robberies and hooted at under his Greek and Roman
names.
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