Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny {royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...}; who cannot show that they have performed their civic duties; who do not starve, and yet have no visible means of support; who have been refused certificates of citizenship by their Sections; who have been removed from public office by the Convention or its representatives; who belong to an aristocratic family, and have not given proof of constant and extraordinary revolutionary fervor; or who have emigrated.
( Hilary Mantel )
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