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[114] Moniteur, XXII., 754. (Report of Gr?goire, Frimaire 24, year
III.) "Rascallery - this word recalls the old revolutionary
committees, most of which formed the scum of society and which showed
so many aptitudes for the double function of robber and persecutor."
[115] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 107. (Orders of Representatives
Ysabeau and Tallien, Bordeaux, Brumaire 11 and 17, year II.) - Third
order, promulgated by the same parties, Frimaire 2, year II.,
replacing this committee by another of twelve members and six
deputies, each at two hundred francs a month. Fourth order, Pluvi?se
16, year II., dismissing the members of the foregoing committee, as
exag?r?s and disobedient. It is because they regard their local
royalty in quite a serious light.-Ibid., AF., II., 46. ("Extracts
from the minutes of the meetings of the revolutionary committee of
Bordeaux," Prairial, year II.) This extract, consisting of eighteen
pages, shows in detail the inside workings of a revolutionary
committee the number of arrested goes on increasing; on the 27th of
Prairial there are 1524. The committee is essentially a police
office; it delivers certificates of civism, issues warrants of arrest,
corresponds with other committees, even very remote, at Limoges, and
Clermont-Ferrand, delegates any of its members to make investigations
or domicialiary searches, to affix seals, and it receives and
transmits denunciations, summons the denounced to appear before it,
reads interrogations, writes to the Committee of Public Safety, etc.
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