The real history of the last five
years of the Revolution may be found in these files. Mallet-Dupan
gives a correct impression of it in his "Correspondance avec la cour
de Vienne," also in the "Mercure Britannique."
[91] Sauzay, X., chaps. 8o and 90. - Ludovic Sciout, IV., ch. 17.
(See especially in Sauzay, X., pp.170 and 281, the instructions given
by Duval, December 16, 1796, and the circulars of Fran?ois de
Neufchateau from November 20, 1798, down to June 18, 1798, each of
these pieces being a masterpiece in its way.
[92] "Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p.134. "June 7, 1798." "The
day following the d?cade, the gardeners, who as usual came to show
themselves off on the main street, were fined six livres for having
treated with contempt and broken the d?cade." January 21, 1799.
"Those who were caught working on the d?cade, were fined three livres
for the first offence if they were caught more than once the fine was
doubled and it was even followed by imprisonment"
[93] Ludovic Sciout, IV., 160. Examples of "individual motives"
alleged to justify the sentence of transportation. One has refused to
baptize an infant whose parents were only married civilly.
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