They show no enthusiasm for the monarch, but are full of respect for and trust in a gendarme; they stop and salute him on passing him on the roads."] [Footnote 3104: Rocquam, "l'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire." (Report by Barbe-Marbois, p.

72, 81.) Cash-boxes broken open and exclamations by the officers "Money and fortune belong to the brave.

Let us help ourselves.

Our accounts will be settled at the cannon's mouth."-- "The subordinates," adds Barbe-Marbois, "fully aware of their superior's drafts on the public treasury, stipulate for their share of the booty; accustomed to exacting contributions from outside enemies they are not averse to treating as conquered enemies the departments they were called upon to defend."] [Footnote 3105: Ibid.

(Reports of Barbe-Marbois and Fourcroy while on their missions in the 12th and 13th military divisions, year IX., p.158, on the tranquility of La Vendee.) "I could have gone anywhere without an escort.