Having survived (the Revolution) he became under the Empire a general commissary of Police at Brest.

Almost all of them are veritable Jacobins, absolutist at bottom, and they became excellent despotic tools.] [Footnote 3370: Buchez et Roux, XXX., 425 .-- Twenty-four commissioners, drawn by lot from the Jacobins of Paris, are associated with Collot d'Herbois.

One of them, Marino, becomes president of the temporary Committee of Surveillance, at Lyons.

Another, Parrien, is made president of the Revolutionary Committee .-- Archives Nationales, AF., II., 59.
(Deliberations in the Paris Jacobin club, appointing three of their number to go to Tonnerre and request the Committee of Public Safety "to give them the necessary power, to use it as circumstances may require, for the best good of the Republic." Frimaire 6, year II.)--"Order of the Committee of Public Safety, allowing two thousand francs to the said parties for their traveling expenses."-- Archives des Affaires Etrangeres, vol.333.The agents sent to Marseilles affix their signatures, "sans-culottes, of Paris," and one of them, Brutus, becomes president of the Marseilles revolutionary tribunal.] [Footnote 3371: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 49.

Papers relating to the revolutionary tax of Belfort, giving all the amounts and names.
(Brumaire 30, year II.) Here is the formula: "citizen X...