The following are samples of its warrants of arrest: "Muller, a
riding-master, will be confined in the former Petit Seminaire, under
suspicion of aristocracy, according to public opinion." - Another
example, (Archives Nationales, F.7, 2475. Register of the proc?s-
verbaux of the revolutionary committee of the Piques section, Paris,
June 3, 1793.) Warrant of arrest against Boucher, grocer, rue Neuve du
Luxembourg, "suspect" of incivisme and "having cherished wicked and
perfidious intentions against his wife." Boucher, arrested, declares
that, "what he said and did in his own house, concerned nobody but
himself." On which he was led to prison.
[116] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 30 (No.105). Examination of Jean
Davilliers, and other ransomed parties.
[117] Berryat Saint-Prix, 313. (Trial of Lacombe and his accomplices
after Thermidor.)
[118] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 46. (Letter of Julien to the
Committee of Public Safety, Bordeaux, Messidor 12, year II.) -
Moniteur, XXII., 713. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6, year III.) At
Verins, citizens were imprisoned and then set at liberty "on
consideration of a fee." - Albert Babeau, II., 164, 165, 206.
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