[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 4 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 4 (of 6) CHAPTER I 101/111
(Report of Billaud-Varennes on a mode of provisional and revolutionary government, Nov.
18th, and decree in conformity therewith.)--Ib., 479 (session of Nov.
22nd, 1793, .-- Speech of Hebrard, spokesman of a deputation from Cantal). "A central committee of surveillance, a revolutionary army, has been established in our department.
Aristocrats, suspects, the doubtful, moderates, egoists, all gentlemen without distinguishing those who have done nothing for the revolution from those who have acted against it, await in retirement the ulterior measures required by the interests of the Republic.
I have said without distinction of the indifferent from the suspects; for we hold to these words of Solon's: 'He who is not with us is against us.'"] [Footnote 11113: The trousers used in pre-Revolutionary France by the nobility was called culottes, they terminated just below the knee where the long cotton or silken stockings would begin.
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