to intimidate his creditors and obtain two discharges of his indebtedness without taking the least trouble to pay his debts."....

"I know an old lady who was kept in prison three months for having demanded from one of these patriots three hundred livres which he owed her." (June 3, 1795.) "I have generally noticed that the republicans are either of the kind I have just indicated, coffee-house waiters, jockeys, gamblers, bankrupts, and low scribblers, or manual laborers more earnest in their principles, more ignorant and more brutal, all spending what they have earned in vulgar indulgence."] [Footnote 3354: Schmidt, "Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Francaise," II., 248, 249.

(Agent's reports, Frimaire 8, year 111.) "The prosecution of Carrier is approved by the public, likewise the condemnation of the former revolutionary committee called the "BonnetRouge." Ten of its members are condemned to twenty years in irons.

The public is overjoyed."-- Ibid., (Frimaire 9), "The people rushed in crowds to the square of the old commune building to see the members of the former revolutionary committee of the Bonnet-Rouge sections, who remained seated on the bench until six o'clock, in the light of flambeaux.

They had to put up with many reproaches and much humiliation."-- "Un Sejour en France," 286, (June 6, 1795).