[40] Malouet I. 247， 248. This evidence is conclusive. "Apart from what I saw myself，" says Malouet， "M. de Montmorin and M. Delessart communicated to me all the police reports of 1789 and 1790."[41] Sauzay， II.79 (municipal election， Nov.15， 1791). -- III. 221(mayoralty election， November， 1792). The half-way moderates had 237votes， and the sans-culottes， 310.
[42] Mercure de France， Nov. 26， 1791 (Pétion was elected mayor， Nov.17， by 6，728 votes out of 10，682 voters). -- Mortimer-Ternaux， V.
95. (Oct 4， 1792， Pétion was elected mayor by 13，746 votes out of 14，137 voters. He declines. - Oct. 21， d'Ormessan， a moderate， who declines to stand， has nevertheless， 4，910 votes. His competitor， Lhuillier， a pure Jacobin， obtains only 4，896.)[43] Albert Babeau， II. 15. (The 32，000 inhabitants of Troyes indicate about 7，000 electors. In December， 1792， Jacquet is elected mayor by 400 votes out of 555 voters. A striking coincidence is found in there being 400 members of the Troyes club at this time.) -- Carnot， Mémoires，" I. 181. "Dr. Bollmann， who passed through Strasbourg in 1792， relates that out of 8，000 qualified citizens， only 400 voters presented themselves.
[44] Mortimer-Ternaux， VI. 21. In February， 1793， Pache is elected mayor of Paris by 11，881 votes. - Journal de Paris， number 185.
Henriot， July 2， 1793， is elected commander-in-chief of the Paris national guard， by 9，084， against 6，095 votes given for his competitor， Raffet. The national guard comprises at this time110，000registered members， besides 10，000 gendarmes and federates. Many of Henriot's partisans， again， voted twice. (Cf. on the elections and the number of Jacobins at Paris， chapters XI. and XII. of this volume.)[45] Michelet， VI. 95. "Almost all (the missionary representatives)were supported by only， the smallest minority. Baudot， for instance， at Toulouse， in 1793， had but 400 men for him."[46] For example， "Archives Nationales，" Fl 6， carton 3. Petition of the inhabitants of Arnay-le-Duc to the king (April， 1792)， very insulting， employing the most familiar language； about fifty signatures. -- Sauzay， III. ch. XXXV. and XXXIV. (details of local elections). - Ibid.， VII. 687 (letter of Grégoire， Dec. 24， 1796). --Malouet， II. 531 (letter by Malouet， July 22， 1779). Malouet and Grégoire agree on the number 300，000. Marie-Joseph Chénier (Moniteur， XII， 695， 20 avril 1792) carries it up to 400，000.
[47] Cf. "The French Revolution，" Vol. I. book II. Ch. III.
[48] Cf. "The Ancient Régime，" p.352.
[49] "Memoires de Madame de Sapinaud，" p. 18. Reply of M. de Sapinaud to the peasants of La Vendée， who wished him to act as their general：
"My friends， it is the earthen pot against the iron pot. What could we do？ One department against eighty-two - we should be smashed！"[50] Malouet， II. 241. "I knew a clerk in one of the bureaus， who， during these sad days "September， 1792)， never missed going. as usual， to copy and add up his registers. Ministerial correspondence with the armies and the provinces followed its regular course in regular forms. The Paris police looked after supplies and kept its eye on sharpers， while blood ran in the streets." -- Cf. on this mechanical need and inveterate habit of receiving orders from the central authority， Mallet du Pan， "Mémoires，" 490： "Dumouriez'
soldiers said to him： 'F--， papa general， get the Convention to order us to march on Paris and you'll see how we will make mince-meat of those b-- in the Assembly！'"[51] With want great interest did any aspiring radical politicians read these lines， whether the German socialist from Hitler learned so much or Lenin during his long stay in Paris around 1906. Taine maybe thought that he was arming decent men to better understand and defend the republic against a new Jacobin onslaught while， in fact， he provided them with an accurate recipe for repeating the revolution.
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[52] At. Matthew， 17：20. (SR.)