It had been decreed by the Terrorists that no person could have occasion for more than two hundred livres a year, and that no income should be permitted to exceed that sum."] [Footnote 2146: Archives Nationales, F7, 4437.

(Address of the people's club of Caisson (Gard), Messidor 7, year II.) "The Bourgeoisie, the merchants, the large land-owners have all the pretension of the ex-nobles.

The law provides no means for opening the eyes of the common people in relation to these new tyrants.

The club desires that the revolutionary tribunal should be empowered to condemn this proud class of individuals to a prompt partial confinement.

The people would then see that they had committed a misdemeanor and would withdraw that sort of respect in which they hold them." A note in the hand-writing of Couthon: "Left to the decision of popular commissions."] [Footnote 2147: Gouvernor Morris, in a letter of January 4, 1796, says that French capitalists have been financially ruined by assignats, and physically by the guillotine .-- Buchez et Roux, XXX., 26.