) "On the
petition of the Committee of Surveillance of Evreux, which sets forth
that all its members are without means, and that it will be impossible
for them to continue their duties since they are without resources for
supporting their families," the representatives allow three of them
two hundred and seventy francs each, and a fourth one hundred and
eighty francs, as a gratuity (outside of the three francs a day.)
[88] Ibid. AF., II., 111. (Order of Albitte and La Porte, Prairial
18, year II.)
[89] Albert Babeau, II., 154-157. - Moniteur, XXII. 425. (Session
of Brumaire 13, year III. Speech by Cambon.) "A government was
organized in which surveillance alone cost 591 millions per annum.
Every man who tilled the ground or worked in a shop, at once abandoned
his pursuit for a place on the Revolutionary Committees . . . where
he got five francs a day."
[90] "Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse," by citizen Pescare, 162, 166,
435.
[91] Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice R?volutionaire," (second edition)
p. XIX. - Ibid., XIV. At Rochefort there is on the revolutionary
tribunal a mason, a shoemaker, a caulker, and a cook; at Bordeaux, on
the military commission, an actor, a wine-clerk, a druggist, a baker,
a journeyman-gilder, and later, a cooper and a leather-dresser.
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