" -
Ibid., 166. He addressed the sans-culottes in the popular club: "Now
is the time to put yourselves in the place of the rich. Strike, and
don't put it off!" - Ibid., 165. " 42 633 livres were placed in the
hands of Gachez and the committee, as secret revolutionary service
money. . . . Between December 4 and 10 Gachez received 20 000
livres, in three orders, for revolutionary expenses and provisional
aid. . . . The leaders of the party disposed of these sums without
control and, it may be added, without scruple; Gachez hands over only
four thousand livres to the sectional poor-committee. On Niv?se 12,
there remains in the treasury of the poor fund only 3738 livres, 12
000 having been diverted or squandered."
[101] "Frochot," by Louis Passy, 172. (Letter of Pajot, member of the
revolutionary committee of Aignay-le-Duc.) "Denunciations occupied
most of the time at our meetings, and it is there that one could see
the hatreds and vengeance of the colleagues who ruled us."
[102] Archives Nationales, D., ยง I, No.4. The following is a sample
among others of the impositions of the revolutionary committees.
(Complaint of Mariotte, proprietor, former mayor of Chatillon-sur-
Seine, Flor?al 27, year II.
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