, declaring
that kitchen-utensils, boilers, sauce-pans, stew-pans, kettles and
other copper and lead vessels, as well as copper and lead not worked-
up, found at Strasbourg and in the departments, be levied on." -
Archives Nationales, AF., I., 92. (Orders of Taillefer, Brumaire 3,
year II. Villefranche 1'Avergnon.) Formation of a Committee of ten
persons directed to make domiciliary visits, and authorized to take
possession of all the iron, lead, steel and copper found in the houses
of "suspects," all of which kitchen utensils, are to be turned into
cannon. - Mallet-Dupan, "M?moires," I., 15.
[44] Moniteur, XXV., 188. (Speech by Blutels, July 9, 1795.)
[45] "Recueil du Pi?ces Authentiques," etc., I., 24. - Gr?goire,
reports on Vandalism, Fructidor 14, year II., and Brumaire 14, year
III. (Moniteur, XXII., 86 and 751.) - Ibid., Letter of December 24,
1796: "Not millions, but billions have been destroyed." - Ibid.,,
"M?moires," I., 334: "It is incalculable, the loss of religious,
scientific and literary objects. The district administrations of
Blanc (Indre) notified me that to ensure the preservation of a
library, they had the books put in casks.
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