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Speech by Cambon.) "A government was organized in which surveillance alone cost 591 millions per annum.
Every man who tilled the ground or worked in a shop, at once abandoned his pursuit for a place on the Revolutionary Committees...
where he got five francs a day."] [Footnote 3390: "Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse," by citizen Pescare, 162, 166, 435.] [Footnote 3391: Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionaire," (second edition) p.
XIX .-- Ibid., XIV.
At Rochefort there is on the revolutionary tribunal a mason, a shoemaker, a caulker, and a cook; at Bordeaux, on the military commission, an actor, a wine-clerk, a druggist, a baker, a journeyman-gilder, and later, a cooper and a leather-dresser.] [Footnote 3392: I heard these expressions during my conversations with old peasants .-- Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 111.
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