) Article II.
"The patriotic donation will be doubled if, in three days, all boats
are not unloaded and all carts loaded as fast as they arrive." Article
IV. "The municipality is charged, on personal responsibility, to
proportion the allotment on the richest citizens of Narbonne." Article
VII. "If this order is not executed within twenty-four hours, the
municipality will designate to the commandant of the post the rich
egoists who may have refused to furnish their contingent, etc."
Article VIII. "The commandant is specially charged to report (the
arrests of the refractory rich) to the representative of the people
within twenty-four hours, he being responsible on his head for the
punctual execution of the present order." - Ibid., AF., II. 135.
(Orders of Saint-Just and Lebas, Strasbourg, Brumaire 10, year II.)
The following is equally ironical; the rich of Strasbourg are
represented as "soliciting a loan on opulent persons and severe
measures" against refractory egoists.
[115] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 92. Orders of Representative
Taillefer, Villefranche, Aveyron, Brumaire 3, year II., and of his
delegate, Deitheil, Brumaire 11, year II.
[116] This is the case in Lyons, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and at Paris,
as we see in the signatures of the petition of the eight thousand, or
that of the twenty thousand, and for members of the Feuillants clubs,
etc.
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