passim); at Toulon (Lauvergne, "Histoire du department du Var"); at Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Besancon, etc .-- At Bordeaux (Riouffe, "Memoires," 23) "it consisted wholly of vagabonds, Savoyards, Biscayans, even Germans,..brokers, and water-carriers, who had become so powerful that they arrested the rich, and so well-off that they traveled by post" Riouffe adds: "When I read this passage in the Conciergerie men from every corner of the republic exclaimed in one voice: 'It is the same in all the communes!'"-- Cf.

Durand-Maillane, "Memoires," 67: "This people, thus qualified, since the suppression of the silver marc has been the most vicious and most depraved in the community."-- Dumouriez, II.

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"The Jacobins, taken for the most part, from the most abject and most brutal of the nation, unable to furnish men of sufficient dignity for offices, have degraded offices to their own level...

They are drunken, barbarous Helots that have taken the places of the Spartans."-- The sign of their advent is the expulsion of the liberals and of the refined of 1789.

("Archives Nationales," F7, 4434, No.6.Letter of Richard to the committee on Public Safety, Ventose 3, year II.).