"They call themselves patriots only to cut the throats of their brethren and get rich."-- Guillon de Montleon, "Histoire de la ville de Lyons Pendant la Revolution III.", 166.

(Report by Fouche, April, 1794.) "Innocent persons, acquitted by the terrible tribunal of the Revolutionary committee, were again consigned to the dungeons of criminals through the despotic orders of the thirty-two committees, because they were so unfortunate as to complain that, on returning home, they could not find the strictly necessary objects they had left there."] [Footnote 33132: Meissner, "Voyage en France dans les Derniers Mois de 1795," p.343.

"A certain domain was handed over to one of their creatures by the revolutionary departments for almost nothing, less than the proceeds of the first cut of wood."-- Moniteur, XXIII., 397.

(Speech by Bourdon de l'Oise, May 6, 1795.) "A certain farmer paid for his farm worth five thousand francs by the sale of one horse."] [Footnote 33133: Moniteur, XXII., 82.

(Report by Gregoire, Fructidor 14, year II.) Ibid., 775.