" - Four hundred thousand
francs were expended in smashing statues of the Fathers of the church,
forming a circle around the dome of the Invalides. - A great many
objects became worthless through a cessation of their use: for
example, the cathedral of Meaux was put up at auction and found no
purchaser at six hundred francs. The materials were valued at forty-
five thousand francs, but labor (for taking it down) was too high.
(Narrative by an inhabitant of Meaux.)
[46] Les Origines du Syst?me Financier Actuel," by Eugene Sturm, p.53,
79.
[47] Meissner, "Voyage ? Paris," (end of 1795), p. 65. "The class of
those who may have really gained by the Revolution.... is composed of
brokers, army contractors, and their subordinates, a few government
agents and fermiers, enriching themselves by their new acquisitions,
and who are cool and shrewd enough to hide their grain, bury their
gold and steadily refuse assignats." - Ibid., 68, 70. " On the road,
he asks to whom a fine chateau belongs, and they tell him with a
significant look, 'to a former scruffy wretch.' - 'Oh, monsieur,' said
the landlady at Vesoul, 'for every one that the Revolution has made
rich, you may be sure that it has made a thousand poor.
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