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[148] Moniteur. (Session of Brumaire 17 year III.) Letter of Representative Calès to the Convention. "Under the pretext of guarding the prisons， the municipality (of Dijon) had a revolutionary army which I broke up two days ago， as it cost six thousand francs a month， and would not obey the commander of the armed force， and served as a support to intriguers. These soldiers， who were all workmen out of employment， do nothing but post themselves in the tribunes of the clubs， where they， with the women they bring along with them， applaud the leaders， and so threaten citizens who are disposed to combat them， and force these to keep their mouths shut." ？？De Martel， "Fouché，"425. "Javogues， to elude a decree of the Convention (Frimaire 14)suppressing the revolutionary army in the departments， converted the twelve hundred men he had embodied in it in the Loire into paid soldiers."？ Ibid.， 132. (Letter of Goulin， Bourg， Frimaire 23.)"Yesterday， at Bourg-Régeriéré， I found Javogues with about four hundred men of the revolutionary army whom he had brought with him on the 20th instant."[149] Buchez et Roux， XXIX.， 45. - Moniteur， XX.， 67. (Report of Barère， Germinal 7.) - Sauzay， IV.， 303. (Orders of Representative Bassal at Bésan？on.)[150] We see by Barère's report (Germinal 7， year II.) that the revolutionary army of Paris， instead of being six thousand men， was only four thousand， which is creditable to Paris. - Mallet-Dupan， II.， 52. (cf. "The Revolution，" II.， 353.) - Gouvion St. Cyr， I.， 137. "In these times， the representatives had organized in Haut-Rhin what they called a revolutionary army， composed of deserters and all the vagabonds and scamps they could pick up who had belonged to the popular club； they dragged along after it what they called judges and a guillotine." - "Hua， "Souvenirs d'un Avocat，" 196.
[151] Riouffe， "Memoires d'un deténue." P.31.
[152] Ibid.， "These balls were brought out ostentatiously and shown to the people beforehand. The tying of our hands and passing three ropes around our waists did not seem to him sufficient. We kept these irons on the rest of the route， and they were so heavy that， if the carriage had tilted to one side， we should inevitably have had our legs broken.
The gate-keepers of the conciergerie of Paris， who had held their places nine-teen years， were astonished at it."[153] Archives des Affaires étrangères， vol.331. (Letter of Haupt， Belfort， Frimaire 13， year II.)[154] Ibid. (Letter by Desgranges， Bordeaux， Frimaire 10.)[155] Ibid.， vol.332. (Letter of Thiberge， Marseilles， Frimaire 14.)"I surrounded the town with my small army."[156] Ibid.， 331. (Orders of Representative Bassal， Besan？on Frimaire 5.) "No citizen shall keep in his house more than four months'
supplies. . . . Every citizen with more than this will deposit the surplus in the granary 'd'abondance' provided for the purpose. . .
. Immediately on receipt of the present order， the municipality will summon all citizens that can thresh and proceed immediately， without delay， to the threshing-ground， under penalty of being prosecuted as refractory to the law. . . . The revolutionary army is specially charged with the execution of the articles of this order， and the revolutionary tribunals， following this army with the enforcement of the penalties inflicted according to this order." - Other documents show us that the revolutionary army， organized in the department of Doubs and in the five neighboring departments， comprises， in all， two thousand four hundred men. (Ibid.， vol.， 1411. Letter of Meyenfeld to Minister Desforges， Brumaire 27， year II.) - Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 111. (Order of Couthon， Maignet， Chateauneuf， Randon， La Porte and Albitte， Commune-Affranchie， Brumaire 9， year II.， establishing in the ten surrounding departments a revolutionary army of one thousand men per department， for the conscription of grain.
Each army is to be directed by commissioners， strangers to the department， and is to operate in other departments than in the one where it is raised.)[157] Archives des Affaires étrangères， 331. (Letter of Chépy， Frimaire II.) - Writing one month before this， (Brumaire 6) he says：
"The farmers show themselves very hostile against the towns and the law of the maximum. Nothing can be done without a revolutionary army."[158] Mercier， "Paris Pendant la Révolution，" I.， 357.