[92] I heard these expressions during my conversations with old
peasants. - Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 111. (Order of the
Representative Ichon, Messidor 18, year II.) "The popular club of
Chinon will be immediately regenerated. Citizens (I omit their
names), the following showing their occupations: shoemaker, policeman.
sabot-maker, cooper, carter, shoemaker, joiner, butcher carpenter and
mason, will form the committee which is to do the weeding-out and
choose successors among those that offer to become members of the
club."? Ibid., D., §I, 10. (Orders of the Representatives Delacroix,
Louchet and Legendre, on mission in the department of Seine-Inf?rieure
for the purpose of removing, at Conchez, the entire administration,
and for forming there a new revolutionary committee, with full powers,
Frimaire 9, year II.) The members of the committee, the nature of
which is indicated, are two coopers, one gardener, two carpenters, one
merchant, a coach-driver and a tailor. (One finds in the archives, in
the correspondence of the representatives, plenty of orders appointing
authorities of the same sort.)
[93] Albert Babeau, II., 296.
[94] The French text reads: "Sa profession est fame de Paillot-
Montabert; son revenu est vivre de ses revenus; ces relation son d'une
fame nous ny portons point d'atantion; ces opignons nous les pr?sumons
semblable ? ceux de son mary.
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