Decree of arrest passed
by 498 out of 500 votes, Frimaire 3; execution Frimaire 26. Fouquier-
Tinville indicted Frimaire 28; execution Flor?al 28, there being 419
witnesses heard. Joseph Lebon indicted Messidor I, year III. Trial
adjourned to the Somme court, Messidor 29; execution Vend?miaire 24,
year IV.
[6] Cf. chapters 4, 5 and 6 of the present volume. Numbers of
printed documents of this epoch show what these local sovereigns were.
The principal ones in the department of Ain were "Anselm, who had
placed Marat's head in his shop. Duclos, a joiner, living before the
31st of May on his earnings; he became after that a gentleman living
on his rents, owning national domains, sheep, horses and pocket books
filled with assignats. Laimant, a tailor, in debt, furnishing his
apartment suddenly with all the luxuriousness of the ancient regime,
such as beds at one hundred pistoles etc. Alban, mayor, placing seals
everywhere, was a blacksmith and father of a family which he supported
by his labor; all at once he stops working, and passes from a state of
dependence to one of splendor; he has diamonds and earrings, always
wearing new clothes, fine linen shirts, muslin cravates, silk
stockings, etc.
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