"Within the course of ten days the property of the fugitives from the law will be sequestrated, and administered by the director of public lands in the Basses-Alpes, according to civil and military laws, etc. Fririon."
Ten similar decrees, emanating from the commanders of states of siege, might be quoted. The first of the malefactors who committed this crime of confiscating property, and who set the example of arrests of this sort, is named Eynard. He is a general. On December 18, he placed under sequestration the property of a number of citizens of Moulins, "because," as he cynically observed, "the beginning of the insurrection leaves no doubt as to the part they took in the insurrection, and in the pillaging in the department of the Allier."
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The number of convictions actually upheld (in most cases the sentences were of transportation) was declared to be as follows, at the date of the reports:—
| By M. Canrobert | 3,876 |
| By M. Espinasse | 3,625 |
| By M. Quentin-Bauchard | 1,634 |
| 9,135 |
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Read the odious despatch, copied verbatim from the Moniteur:
"The armed insurrection has been totally suppressed in Paris by vigorous measures. The same energy will produce the same effect everywhere else.
"Bands of people who spread pillage, rapine, and fire, place themselves outside of the law. With them one does not argue or warn; one attacks and disperses them.
"All who resist must be shot, in the name of society defending itself."