, 113.
(Speech of the mayor Mouet, Flor?al 21, year II.) "Moral purification
(in Strasbourg) has become less difficult through the reduction of
fortunes and the salutary terror excited among those covetous men . .
. Civilization has encountered mighty obstacles in this great number
of well-to-do families who have nourished souvenirs of, and who regret
the privileges enjoyed by, these families under the Emperors; they
have formed a caste apart from the State carefully preserving the
gothic pictures of their ancestors they were united only amongst
themselves. They are excluded from all public functions. Honest
artisans, now taken from all pursuits, impel the revolutionary cart
with a vigorous hand."
[119] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol. 1411. (Instructions for
the civil commissioners by H?rault, representative of the people,
Colmar, Frimaire 2, year II.) He enumerates the diverse categories of
persons who were to be arrested, which categories are so large and
numerous as to include nine out of ten of the inhabitants.
[120] Dauban, "Paris en 1794," p.264. (Report of Pourveyeur, Vent?se
29.) "They remark (sic) that one is not (sic) a patriot with twenty-
thousand livres (sic) income, and especially a former advocate-
general.
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