) "Ladies in the street who are well-
dressed or wear colors that the people regard as aristocratic are
commonly insulted. I, myself, have been almost knocked down for
wearing a straw hat trimmed with green ribbons." - Nolhac, "Souvenirs
de Trois Ann?es de la R?volution at Lyons," p.132. "It was announced
that whoever had two coats was to fetch one of them to the Section, so
as to clothe some good republican and ensure the reign of equality."
[93] Buchez et Roux, XXVI., 455. (Speech by Robespierre, in the
Jacobin club, May 10, 1793.): "The rich cherish hopes for an anti-
revolution; it is only the wretched, only the people who can save the
country." - Ibid., XXX. (Report by Robespierre to the Convention,
December 25, 1793.): "Virtue is the appanage of the unfortunate and
the people's patrimony." - Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 72. (Letter
of the municipality of Montauban, Vend?miaire 23, year IV.) Many
workmen in the manufactories have been perverted "by excited
demagogues and club orators who have always held out to them equality
of fortunes and presented the Revolution as the prey of the class they
called sans-culottes . . . . The law of the 'maximum,' at first
tolerably well carried out, the humiliation of the rich, the
confiscation of the immense possessions of the rich, seemed to be the
realization of these fine promises.
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