[48] For statements showing the distress and disorder that forced the
Convention to establish the "_Maximum_" see Levasseur, vol. i, pp.
188-193.

[49] See Levasseur, as above, vol. i, pp. 195-225.

[50] See specimens of these tickets in the White Collection in the
Cornell Library.

[51] For these condemnations to the guillotine see the officially
published trials and also the lists of the condemned, in the White
Collection, also the lists given daily in the "Moniteur." For the spy
system, see Levasseur, vol. i, p. 194.

[52] See Levasseur, as above, vol. i, p. 186. For an argument to show
that the Convention was led into this Draconian legislation, not by
necessity, but by its despotic tendencies, see Von Sybel's "History of
the French Revolution," vol. iii, pp. 11, 12. For general statements
of theories underlying the "_Maximum_," see Thiers; for a very
interesting picture, by an eye-witness, of the absurdities and
miseries it caused, see Mercier, "Nouveau Paris," edition of 1800,
chapter XLIV.

[53] For a summary of the report of the Committee, with list of
articles embraced under it, and for various interesting details, see
Villeneuve Bargemont, "Histoire de l'Economie Politique," vol. ii,
pp. 213-239; also Levasseur, as above. For curious examples of severe
penalties for very slight infringements on the law on the subject, see
Louis Blanc, "Histoire de la Révolution française," tome x, p. 144.