nt of the necessary without the
superfluous, the luxury of a cabin and of a field fertilized by your
own hands. A cart, a thatched roof affording shelter from the frosts, a
family safe from the lubricity of a robber--such is happiness!"]

[Footnote 2175: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 402. (Constitution of 1793.)]

[Footnote 2176: Ibid. XXXV., 310. ("Institutions", by Saint-Just.)]

[Footnote 2177: Ibid., XXVI., 93 and 131. (Speech by Robespierre on
property, April 24, 1793, and declaration of rights adopted by the
Jacobin Club.)--Mallet-Dupan, "Memoires," I., 401. (Address of a
deputation from Gard.) "Material wealth is no more the special property
of any one member of the social body than base metal stamped as a
circulating medium."]

[Footnote 2178: Moniteur, VIII., 452. (Speech by Hebert in the Jacobin
Club, Brumaire 26, year II.) "Un Sejour en France de 1792 a 1795,"
p.218. (Amiens, Oct. 4, 1794.) "While waiting this morning at a shop
door I overheard a beggar bargaining for a slice of pumpkin. Unable to
agree on the price with the woman who kept the shop he pronounced her
'corrupted with aristocracy.' 'I defy you to prove it!' she replied.
But, as she spoke, she turned pale and added, 'Your civism is beyond
all question--but take your pumpkin.' 'Ah,' returned the beggar, 'what a
good republican!'"]

[Footnote 2179: Ibid., XVIII., 320. (Meeting of Brumaire 11, year II.
Report by Barere.)--Meillan, 17. Already, before the 31st May: "The
tribune resounded with charges against monopoly, every man being a
monopolist who was not reduced to living on daily wages or on alms."]

[Footnote 2180: Decrees of July 26, 1793, Sept. 11 and 29; Brumaire 11,
and Ventose 6, year II.]

[Footnote 2181: Moniteur, XVIII., 359. "Brumaire 16, year II. Sentence
of death of Pierre Gourdier, thirty-six years of age, stock-broker,
resident in Paris, rue Bellefond, convicted of having monopolized and
concealed in his house a large quantity of bread, in order to bread
scarcity in the midst of abundance." He had gastritis and could eat
nothing but panada made with toast, and the baker who furnished this
gave him thirty pieces at a time (Wallon, II., 155).]

[Footnote 2182: Journal of the debates of the Jacobin Club, No.
532, Brumaire 20, year II. (Plan of citizen Dupre, presented in the
Convention by a deputation of the Arcis Club.)--Dauban, "Paris en 1794,"
p. 483 (a project similar to the former, presented to the Committee of
Public Safety by