* the maintenance of roads and public buildings.
So that of the two groups of cravings which troubled men in 1800, the first one, that which dated from the Revolution, has, towards 1808 or 1810, obtained reasonable satisfaction.
3101 ([return])
[ Roederer, III., 334 (August 6, 1800).]
3102 ([return])
[ The word means "what is beyond the Alps" but refers to a number of doctrines favoring the Pope's absolute authority. (SR.)]
3103 ([return])
[ Stanislas Girardin, "Mémoires," I., 273 (22 Thermidor, year X): "The only craving, the only sentiment in France, disturbed for so many years, is repose. Whatever secures this will gain its assent. Its inhabitants, accustomed to take an active part in all political questions, now seem to take no interest in them."—Roederer, III., 484 (Report on the Sénatorerie of Caen, Dec. 1, 1803): "The people of the rural districts, busy with its new affairs,... are perfectly submissive, because they now find security for persons and property.. .. They show no enthusiasm for the monarch, but are full of respect for and trust in a gendarme; they stop and salute him on passing him on the roads.">[