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[108] Albert Babeau, "Histoire de Troyes," II., 160. "A gardener had
carefully accumulated eight thousand two hundred and twenty-three
livres in gold, the fruit of his savings; threatened with
imprisonment, he was obliged to give them up."
[109] Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 116. (Orders of Representative
Paganel, Toulouse, Brumaire 12, year II.) "The day has arrived when
apathy is an insult to patriotism, and indifference a crime. We no
longer reply to the objections of avarice; we will force the rich to
fulfill the duties of fraternity which they have abjured." - Ibid.
(Extract from the minutes of the meetings of the Central committee of
Montauban, April II, 1793, with the approval of the representative,
Jeanbon-Saint-Andr?.) "The moment has at length come when moderatism,
royalism and pusillanimity, and all other traitorous or useless sects
to the country, should disappear from the soil of Liberty." All
opinions opposed to those of sans-culotterie are blamable and merit
punishment.
[110] Archives Nationales, F.7, 2471. (Minutes of the Revolutionary
Committee of the Tuileries section, meeting of September 17, 1793.)
List of seventy-four persons put under arrest and among them, M.
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