[110] Langlois， "Souvenirs de l'Ecole de Mars."[111] Buchez et Roux， XXXII.， 355. (Report by Robespierre， Floréal 18， year II.)[112] Moniteur， XVIII.， 326. (Meeting of the Commune， Brumaire 11， year II.) the commissary announces that， at Fontainebleau and other places， "he has established the system of equality in the prisons and places of confinement， where the rich and the poor partake of the same food." - Ibid.， 210. (Meeting of the Jacobins， Vendémiaire 29， year II. Speech by Laplance on his mission to Gers.) "Priests had every comfort in their secluded retreats； the sans-culottes in the prisons slept on straw. The former provided me with mattresses for the latter." - Ibid.， XVIII.， 445. (Meeting of the convention， Brumaire 26， year II.) "The Convention decrees that the food of persons kept in places of confinement shall be simple and the same for all， the rich paying for the poor."[113] Archives Nationales. (AF. II.， 37， order of Lequinio， Saintes， Nivose 1， year II.) "Citizens generally in all communes， are requested to celebrate the day of the decade by a fraternal banquet which， served without luxury or display . . . will render the man bowed down with fatique insensible to his forlorn condition； which will fill the soul of the poor and unfortunate with the sentiment of social equality and raise man up to the full sense of his dignity； which will suppress with the rich man the slightest feeling of pride and extinguish in the public functionary all germs of haughtiness and aristocracy."[114] Archives Nationales， AF. II.， ii.， 48 (Act of Floréal 25， year II.) "the Committee of Public Safety request David， representative of the people， to present his views and plans in relation to modifying the present national costume， so as to render it appropriate to republican habits and the character of the Revolution." - Ibid.， (Act of Prairial 5， year II.) for engraving and coloring twenty thousand impressions of the design for a civil uniform， and six thousand impressions for the three designs for a military， judicial and legislative uniform.
[115] An identical change took， strangely enough and as caused by some hidden force， place in Denmark in the seventies. (SR.)[116] This is now the case in the entire Western 'democratic' sphere， in newspapers， schools， and on television. (SR.)[117] Ibid， XXXI.， 271. (Report by Robespierre， Pluviose 1， year II.)"This sublime principle supposes a preference for public interests over all private interests； from which it follows that the love of country supposes again， or produces， all the virtues." "As the essence of a republic or of democracy is equality， it follows that love of country necessarily comprises a love of equality." "The soul of the Republic is virtue， equality." - Lavalette， "Memoirs，" I.， 254.
(Narrated by Madame Lavalette.) She was compelled to attend public festivals， and， every month， the patriotic processions. "I was rudely treated by my associates， the low women of the quarter； the daughter of an emigré， of a marquis， or of an imprisoned mother， ought not to be allowed the honor of their company； .... it was all wrong that she was not made an apprentice.... Hortense de Beauharnais was apprenticed to her mother's seamstress， while Eugene was put with a carpenter in the Faubourg St. Germain." The prevailing dogmatism has a singular effect with simple-minded people. (Archives Nationals， AF.
II.， 135. petition of Ursule Riesler， servant to citizen Estreich and arrested along with him， addressed to Garneri， agent of the Committee of Public Safety. She begs citizen Garnerin to interest himself in obtaining her freedom. She will devote her life to praying to the Supreme Being for him， since he will redeem her life. He is to furnish her， moreover， with the means for espousing a future husband， a genuine republican， by who she is pregnant， and who would not allow her to entertain any idea of fanatical capers.