At this period many of these people owe the butcher, the baker, the wine-dealer, etc.; nobody trusts them any more.

They have ceased to love their wives, and their children cry for food, while the father is at the Jacobin club or at the Tuileries.

Many of them have abandoned their position and trade," while, either through "indolence" or consciousness "of their incapacity,"...

"they would with a kind of sadness see this trade come back to life." That of a political gossip, of a paid claqueur, is more agreeable, and such is the opinion of all the idlers, summoned by the bugle to work on the camps around Paris .-- --Here,[3396] eight thousand men are paid forty sous a day "to do nothing"; "the workmen come along at eight, nine and ten o'clock in the morning.

If they remain after roll-call...