Letter of Julien, Messidor 12, year II.

"A good deal has been stolen here; the mayor, now in prison, is informed of considerable losses.

The former Committee of surveillance came under serious suspicion; many people who were outlawed only escaped by paying: it is a fact that...

Of a number of those who have thus purchased their lives there are some who did not deserve to die and who, nevertheless, were threatened with death."-- Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 428.

(Extracts from the Memoirs of Senart).