Squanderers of the public funds, robbers of private fortunes...

Guilty of rapine, of forced contributions, of extortions," etc .-- Prudhomme, "Les crimes de la Revolution," VI., 79.

(On the Revolutionary committee installed by Fouche at Nevers.) The local investigation shows that the eleven leaders were men of vile character, unfrocked and disreputable priests, lawyers and notaries driven out of their professional bodies, and even from the popular clubs, on account of their dishonesty, penniless actors, surgeons without patients, depraved, ruined, incapable men, and two jail-birds.] [Footnote 33143: Beaulieu, III., 754 .-- Cf.

"The Revolution," vol.II., ch.

I., P 9.] [Footnote 33144: "Recueil de pieces authentiques sur la Revolution a Strasbourg," I., 21 .-- Archives Nationales D., I., P 6.