"I was rudely treated by my associates, the low women of the quarter; the daughter of an emigre, of a marquis, or of an imprisoned mother, ought not to be allowed the honor of their company;....

it was all wrong that she was not made an apprentice....

Hortense de Beauharnais was apprenticed to her mother's seamstress, while Eugene was put with a carpenter in the Faubourg St.Germain." The prevailing dogmatism has a singular effect with simple-minded people.

(Archives Nationals, AF.II., 135.

petition of Ursule Riesler, servant to citizen Estreich and arrested along with him, addressed to Garneri, agent of the Committee of Public Safety.