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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"


[143] Beaulieu, III., 754. - Cf. "The Revolution," vol. II., ch.
I., § 9.
[144] "Recueil de pi?ces authentiques sur la R?volution ? Strasbourg,"
I., 21. - Archives Nationales D., I., § 6. (Orders by Rousselin,
Frimaire II, year II.)
[145] "Un Sejour en France de 1792 ? 1795," p.409.
[146] I have not found a complete list of the towns and departments
which had a revolutionary army. The correspondence of representatives
on mission and published documents verify the presence of
revolutionary armies in the towns mentioned.
[147] De Martel, "Fouch?," 338. (Text of the orders of the
commissioners of Public Safety.) The detachment sent to Lyons
comprises twelve hundred fusiliers, six hundred gunners, one hundred
and fifty horses. Three hundred thousand livres are remitted as
traveling expenses to the commissary, fifty thousand to Collot
d'Herbois, and nineteen thousand two hundred to the Jacobin civilians
accompanying them.
[148] Moniteur. (Session of Brumaire 17 year III.) Letter of
Representative Cal?s to the Convention. "Under the pretext of
guarding the prisons, the municipality (of Dijon) had a revolutionary
army which I broke up two days ago, as it cost six thousand francs a
month, and would not obey the commander of the armed force, and served
as a support to intriguers.


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