I thought the Bourbons completely resigned to their exile.

I supposed the police so organized as to suppress both provisional royalist committees in the large towns and bandits on the highways.

In fact, I believed the Vendee had been completely pacificated by Hoche." The young man to whom this reply was addressed burst out laughing.
"Why, where do you come from ?" he exclaimed.
"I told you, citizen, from the end of the earth." "So it seems." Then he continued: "You understand, the Bourbons are not rich, the emigres whose property was confiscated are ruined.

It is impossible to organize two armies and maintain a third without money.
The royalists faced an embarrassing problem; the republic alone could pay for its enemies' troops and, it being improbable that she would do so of her own volition, the shady negotiation was abandoned, and it was adjudged quicker to take the money without permission than to ask her for it." "Ah! I understand at last." "That's very fortunate." "Companions of Jehu then are the intermediaries between the Republic and the Counter-Revolution, the tax-collectors of the royalist generals ?" "Yes.

It is not robbery, but a military operation, rather a feat of arms like any other.