On Nivose 12, there remains in the treasury of the poor fund only 3738 livres, 12 000 having been diverted or squandered."] [Footnote 33101: "Frochot," by Louis Passy, 172.

(Letter of Pajot, member of the revolutionary committee of Aignay-le-Duc.) "Denunciations occupied most of the time at our meetings, and it is there that one could see the hatreds and vengeance of the colleagues who ruled us."] [Footnote 33102: Archives Nationales, D., P I, No.4.The following is a sample among others of the impositions of the revolutionary committees.
(Complaint of Mariotte, proprietor, former mayor of Chatillon-sur-Seine, Floreal 27, year II.) "On Brumaire 23, year II., I was stopped just as I was taking post at Mussy, travelling on business for the Republic, and provided with a commission and passport from the Minister of war....

I was searched in the most shameful manner; citizen Menetrier, member of the committee, used towards me the foulest language....

I was confined in a tavern; instead of two gendarmes which would have been quite sufficient to guard me, I had the whole brigade, who passed that night and the next day drinking, until, in wine and brandy the charge against me in the tavern amounted to sixty francs.

And worse still, two members of the same committee passed a night guarding me and made me pay for it.