Your humanity requires you for once to show yourselves inexorable.

Strike terror to the wicked.

The proscriptions which we impose on you as a duty, are the sacred wrath of your country." There is no mistaking this; it is a tocsin sounding against all the powers that be, against all social superiority, against priests and nobles, proprietors, capitalists, the leaders of business and industry; it is sounding, in short, against the whole elite of France, whether of old or recent origin.

The Jacobins of Paris, by their journals, their examples, their missionaries, give the signal; and in the provinces their kindred spirits, imbued with the same principles, only wait the summons to hurl themselves forward.
II .-- In several departments it establishes itself in advance.
An instance of this in the Var.
In many departments[3208] they have forestalled the summons.

In the Var, for example, pillages and proscriptions have begun with the month of May.