) "The people complain
(se plain) that there are still some conspirators in the interior,
such as butchers and bakers, but particularly the former, who are
(son) an intolerable aristocracy. They (il) will sell no more meat,
etc. It is frightful to see what they (il) give the people."
[98] "Recueil de Police," etc., I., 69 and 91. At Strasbourg a number
of women of the lower class are imprisoned as "aristocrats and
fanatics," with no other alleged motive. The following are their
occupations: dressmaker, upholsteress, housewife, midwife, baker,
wives of coffee-house keepers, tailors, potters and chimney-sweeps. -
Ibid., II., 216. "Ursule Rath, servant to an ?migr? arrested for the
purpose of knowing what her master had concealed. . . . Marie
Faber, on suspicion of having served in a priest's house." - Archives
Nationales, AF., II., 135. (List of the occupations of the suspected
women detained in the cells of the National college.) Most of them are
imprisoned for being either mothers, sisters, wives or daughters of
?migr?s or exiled priests, and many are the wives of shopkeepers or
mechanics. One, a professional nurse, is an "aristocrat and fanatic.
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