- "Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p.92.
(February 25, 1795.) The sessions of the popular club were largely
devoted to reading the infamies and robberies of the revolutionary
committee. Its members, who designated the suspects, often arrested
them themselves; they made levies and reports of these in which they
omitted the gold and jewels found."
[122] Moniteur, XXII. 133. (Session of Vend?miaire II, year III.)
Report by Thibaudeau. "These seven individuals are reprobates who
were dismissed by the people's representatives for having stolen the
effects of persons arrested. A document is on record in which they
make a declaration that, not remembering the value of the effects
embezzled, they agree to pay damages to the nation of twenty-two
francs each."
[123] Berryat Saint-Prix, 447. Judge Ragot was formerly a joiner at
Lyons, and Viot, the public prosecutor, a former deserter from the
Penthi?vre regiment. "Other accused persons were despoiled. Little
was left them other than their clothes, which were in a bad state.
Nappier, the bailiff, was, later, (Messidor, year III.), condemned to
irons for having appropriated a part of the effects, jewels and
assignats belonging to persons under accusation.
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