("Le Vieux
Cordelier," No. IV., Frimaire 30, year II.) - Beaulieu does not state
precisely what the committee of General Security meant by the word
d?t?nu. Does it merely relate to those incarcerated? Or must all who
were confined at their own houses be included? - We are able to verify
his statement and determine the number, at least approximatively, by
taking one department in which the rigor of the revolutionary system
was average and where the lists handed in were complete. According to
the census of 1791, Doubs contained two hundred and twenty-one
thousand inhabitants; France had a population of 26 millions, and we
have just seen the number of each category that were under
confinement; the proportion for France gives 258 000 persons
incarcerated, and 175 000 confined to their houses, and 175 000
persons besides these on the limits in their communes, or ajourn?es,
that is to say, 608 000 persons deprived of their liberty. The first
two categories form a total of 433 000 persons, sufficiently near
Beaulieu's figures.
[14] Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," II., 371, 372, 375, 377, 379,
380. - "Les Angoisses de la Mort," by Poirier and Monjay of Dunkirk
(second edition, year III.
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