Fouquier adds, that they were treated as aristocrats and anti-revolutionaries, and threatened with death if they refused to remain on their posts." Analogous declarations by Pigeot, Ganne, Girard, Dupley, Foucault, Nollin and Madre.

"Sellier adds, that the tribunal having remonstrated against the law of Prairial 22, he was threatened with arrest by Dumas.
Had we resigned, he says, Dumas would have guillotined us.] [Footnote 11124: Moniteur, XXIV., 12.

(Session of Ventose 29, year III., speech by Baileul).

"Terror subdued all minds, suppressed all emotions; it was the force of the government, while such was this government that the numerous inhabitants of a vast territory seemed to have lost the qualities which distinguish man from a domestic animal.

They seemed even to have no life except what the government accorded to them.