- Cf. De Martel, "
Fouch?," P.245. (Memorial of the central administration of Ni?vre,
Prairial 19, year III.) "The account returned by the city of Nevers
amounts to eighty thousand francs, the use of which has never been
verified. . . . This tax, in part payment of the war subsidy, was
simply a trap laid by the political actors in order to levy a
contribution on honest, credulous citizens." - Ibid., 217. On
voluntary gifts and forced taxation cf. at Nantes, the use made of
revolutionary taxes, brought out on the trial of the revolutionary
committee.
[113] Ludovic Sciout, IV., 19. Report of Representative Becker.
(Journal des D?bats et D?crets, p.743, Prairial, year III.) He returns
from a mission to Landau and renders an account of the executions
committed by the Jacobin agents in the Rhenish provinces. They levied
taxes, sword in hand, and threatened the refractory with the
guillotine at Strasbourg. The receipts which passed under the
reporter's eyes "presented the sum of three millions three hundred and
forty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-five livres, two deniers,
whilst our colleague, Cambon, reports only one hundred and thirty-
eight thousand paid in.
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