333. The agents sent to Marseilles affix
their signatures, "sans-culottes, of Paris," and one of them, Brutus,
becomes president of the Marseilles revolutionary tribunal.
[71] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 49. Papers relating to the
revolutionary tax of Belfort, giving all the amounts and names.
(Brumaire 30, year II.) Here is the formula: "citizen X. . . (male
or female) will pay in one hour the sum of - - , under penalty of
being considered suspect and treated as such." - "Recueil des Pi?ces
Authentiques concernant la R?volution ? Strasbourg," I., 128, 187.
(Expressions of the representative Baudot in a letter dated Brumaire
29, year II.)
[72] Archives Nationales: the acts and letters of the representatives
on mission are classed by departments. - On the delegates of the
representatives on mission, I will cite but one text. (Archives des
Affaires ?trang?res, vol. 333, letter of Garrigues, Auch, Pluvi?se
24, year II.): "A delegate of Dartigoyte goes to l'Isle and, in the
popular club, wants the cur? of the place to get rid of his priestly
attributes. The man answers, so they tell me, that he would
cheerfully abstain from his duties, but that, if, in addition to this,
they used force he would appeal to the convention, which had no idea
of interfering with freedom of opinion.
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