It would cost the Republic less to support six million men in all the communes."-- "Le Departement des Affaires etrangeres," by Fr.
Masson, 382.

(According to "Paris a la fin du dix-huitieme siecle," by Pujoulx, year IX.): "At Paris alone there are more than thirty thousand (government) clerks; six thousand at the most do the necessary writing; the rest cut away quills, consume ink and blacken paper.

In old times, there were too many clerks in the bureaux relatively to the work; now, there are three times as many, and there are some who think that there are not enough."] [Footnote 3357: "Souvenirs de M.Hua," a parliamentary advocate, p.96.
(A very accurate picture of the small town Coucy-le-Chateau, in Aisne, from 1792 to 1794.)--"Archives des Affaires etrangeres," vol.334.
(Letter of the agents, Thionville, Ventose 24, year II.) The district of Thionville is very patriotic, submits to the maximum and requisitions, but not to the laws prohibiting outside worship and religious assemblies.

"The apostles of Reason preached in vain to the people, telling them that, up to this time, they had been deceived and that now was the time to throw off the yoke of prejudice: 'we are willing to believe that, thus far, we have been deceived, but who will guarantee us that you will not deceive us in your turn ?'"] [Footnote 3358: Lagros: "La Revolution telle qu'elle est." (Unpublished correspondence of the committee of Public Safety, I., 366.

Letter of Prieur de la Marne.) "In general, the towns are patriotic; but the rural districts are a hundred leagues removed from the Revolution..