. . Horrible depredations are
committed."
[131] Ibid. Letter by Reverchon : "These fanatics all want the
Republic simply for them-selves." . . . "They call themselves
patriots only to cut the throats of their brethren and get rich." -
Guillon de Montl?on, " Histoire de la ville de Lyons Pendant la
R?volution III., 166. (Report by Fouch?, April, 1794.) "Innocent
persons, acquitted by the terrible tribunal of the Revolutionary
committee, were again consigned to the dungeons of criminals through
the despotic orders of the thirty-two committees, because they were so
unfortunate as to complain that, on returning home, they could not
find the strictly necessary objects they had left there."
[132] Meissner, "Voyage en France dans les Derniers Mois de 1795,"
p.343. "A certain domain was handed over to one of their creatures by
the revolutionary departments for almost nothing, less than the
proceeds of the first cut of wood."- Moniteur, XXIII., 397. (Speech
by Bourdon de l'Oise, May 6, 1795.) "A certain farmer paid for his
farm worth five thousand francs by the sale of one horse."
[133] Moniteur, XXII., 82. (Report by Gr?goire, Fructidor 14, year
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