(Meeting of the Jacobins, Vendemiaire 29, year II.

Speech by Laplance on his mission to Gers.) "Priests had every comfort in their secluded retreats; the sans-culottes in the prisons slept on straw.

The former provided me with mattresses for the latter."-- Ibid., XVIII., 445.

(Meeting of the convention, Brumaire 26, year II.) "The Convention decrees that the food of persons kept in places of confinement shall be simple and the same for all, the rich paying for the poor."] [Footnote 21113: Archives Nationales.

(AF.II., 37, order of Lequinio, Saintes, Nivose 1, year II.) "Citizens generally in all communes, are requested to celebrate the day of the decade by a fraternal banquet which, served without luxury or display...