, swarm, with a
few exceptions only, among the constituted authorities. Whatever is
most foul and incompetent is in office, every good citizen being
frightened to death."- Ibid. (Letter of Montauban, director of the
registry since 1793 to the Minister of the Interior, a compatriot,
Avignon, Pluvi?se 7, year VII.) "Honest folks are constantly annoyed
and put down by the authors and managers of the 'Glaciere'. . . .
. by the tools of the bloody tribunal of Orange and the incendiaries
of Bedouim." He enjoins secrecy on this letter, which, "if known to
the Glaci?rists, or Orangeists, would cost him his life."
[141] Ibid., F.7, 7164. (Department of Var, year V., "Ide?
G?n?rale.") "National character is gone; it is even demoralized: an
office-holder who has not made his fortune quickly is regarded as a
fool."
[142] Moniteur, XXII., 240. (Indictment of the fourteen members of
the Revolutionary committee of Nantes, and the summing-up of the
examination, Vend?miaire 23, year II.) When there is no special
information concerning the other committees the verdict, on the whole,
is nearly always as overwhe1ming.-Ibid. (Session of Vend?miaire 12,
year III.
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