People thus disposed, they said, to second civic and administrative views, could not be humored too much.....

This discouraging state of things simply results from the weakness, inexperience, ignorance, apathy and immorality of the public functionaries who, since the 18th of Fructidor, year V., swarm, with a few exceptions only, among the constituted authorities.

Whatever is most foul and incompetent is in office, every good citizen being frightened to death."-- Ibid.

(Letter of Montauban, director of the registry since 1793 to the Minister of the Interior, a compatriot, Avignon, Pluviose 7, year VII.) "Honest folks are constantly annoyed and put down by the authors and managers of the 'Glaciere'....

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