The dregs of the people, stimulated from above by sudden and violent excitement, have everywhere brought to the surface the scum of immorality."] [Footnote 3303: Fleury, "Babeuf," 139, 150 .-- Granier de Cassagnac, "Histoire du Directoire," II., 24-170 .-- (Trial of Babeuf, passim.) The above quotations are from documents seized in Babeuf's house, also from affidavits made by witnesses, and especially by captain Grizel.] [Footnote 3304: Moniteur, session of September 5, 1793.

"Since our virtue, our moderation, our philosophic ideas, are of no use to us, let us be brigands for the good of the people; let us be brigands!"] [Footnote 3305: Babeuf, "Le Tribun du Peuple," No.40.Apologia for the men of September, "who have only been the priests, the sacrificers of a just immolation for public security.

If anything is to be regretted it is that a larger and more general Second of September did not sweep away all starvers and all despoilers."] [Footnote 3306: Granier de Cassagnac, II., 90.

(Deposition of Grisel.) Rossignol said, "That snuff-box is all I have left, here it is so that I may exist."-- "Massard owned a pair of boots which he could not collect because he had no money with which to pay the shoemaker."] [Footnote 3307: Archives Nationales, Cf.31167.

(Report of Robin, Nivose 9.): "The women always had a deliberative voice in the popular assemblies of the Pantheon section," and in all the other clubs they attended the meetings.] [Footnote 3308: Moniteur, XIX., 103.