(Letter by Collot d'Herbois Frimaire 3, year II., demanding that Paris Jacobins be sent to him at Lyons.) "If I could have asked for our old ones I should have done...

but they are necessary at Paris, almost all of them having been made mayors."] [Footnote 3330: Meissner, "Voyage a Paris," (at the end of 1795,) 160.
"Persons who can neither read nor write obtain the places of accountants of more or less importance."?
Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.324.

(Denunciations of Pio to the club, against his colleagues.)--Dauban, ibid., 35.

(Note by Quevremont, Jan., 1794.): "The honest man who knows how to work cannot get into the ministerial bureaux, especially those of the War and Navy departments, as well as those of the Commune and of the Departments, without having a lump in his throat .-- Offices are mostly filled by creatures of the Commune who very often have neither talent nor integrity.

Again, the denunciations, always welcomed, however frivolous and baseless they may be, turn everything upside down."] [Footnote 3331: Moniteur, XXIV., 397 (Speech of Dubois-Crance in the Convention Floreal 16, year III.)--Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167.
(Report by Rolin, Nivose 7, year II.) "The same complaints are heard against the civil Commissioners of the section, most of whom are unintelligent, not even knowing how to read."] [Footnote 3332: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.1411.