And what for?
He was one of the first at the Bastille; he has always refused places so that the good sans-culottes might have them, and, if he has made enemies, it was because he was unwilling to see these filled by ignoramuses or new-comers, who, vociferating and apparently thirsting for blood, have created a barrier of partisans around them."] [Footnote 3324: Dauban, ibid., 307.

(Report of March 29, 1794.)] [Footnote 3325: Ibid., 150.

(Report of Ventose 14.)--Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167.

(Reports of Nivose 9 and 25.): "A great many citizens are found in the sections who are called out after the meeting, to get forty sous.

I notice that most of them are masons, and even a few coach drivers belonging to the nation, who can do without the nation's indemnity, which merely serves them for drink to make them very noisy."-- "The people complain, because the persons to whom the forty sous are given, to attend the section assemblies do nothing all day, being able to work at different trades....