. . It is I, who in the future will be your
company; I, who will make you familiar with the republican principles,
who will make you love them, and who will take care of your
improvement."
[148] Taillandier, M?moires ?crits par Daunau, ? Port-Libre, in Aug.
1794, p.51, 52.
[149] Granier du Cassagnac, "Histoire du Directoire," i., 107. (Trial
of Babeuf, extracts from Buonarotti, programme des "Egaux.") All
literature in favor of Revelation must be prohibited: children are to
be brought up in common; the child will no longer bear his father's
name; no Frenchman shall leave France; towns shall be demolished,
chateaux torn down and books proscribed; all Frenchmen shall wear one
special costume; armies shall be commanded by civil magistrates; the
dead shall be prosecuted and obtain burial only according to the
favorable decision of the court; no written document shall be
published without the consent of the government, etc." - Cf. "Les
Meditations de Saint-Just."
[150] Guillon de Montl?on, II., 174.
[151] "Memoires sur les Prisons," I., 211, II., 187. - Beaulieu,
"Essais," V., 320. "The prisons became the rendezvous of good
society."
[152] "The Revolution," vol.
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