Those who are subject to the
license-tax came in crowds to the H?tel-de-Ville." Scarcely "was the
bureau of receipts opened when it was filled with respectable
people; those on the contrary who style themselves good patriots,
republicans or anarchists, were not conspicuous on this occasion;
but a very small number among them have made their submission. The
rest are surprised at being called upon for money; they had been
given a quite different hope."
In short, during more than thirty months, and under a steady fire of
threats, outrages, and plunder, the nobles who remain in France
neither commit nor undertake any hostile act against the Government
that persecutes them. None of them, not even M. de Bouill?, attempts
to carry out any real plan of civil war; I find but one resolute man
in their ranks at this date, ready for action, and who labors to
form one militant party against another militant party: he is really
a politician and conspirator; he has an understanding with the Comte
d'Artois; he gets petitions signed for the freedom of the King and
of the Church; he organizes armed companies; he recruits the
peasants; he prepares a Vend?e for Languedoc and Provence; and this
person is a bourgeois, Froment of N?mes.
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