书城公版The Origins of Contemporary France
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[136] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 156. "We, members of the revolutionary commission, citizens Clémence, of the Bon-Conseil section; Dunouy, of the Sans-culottes section; Bonin, of the section of Les Marchés, Auvray of the section of Mont-Blanc; Séguy, of the section of Butte-des-Moulins; Moissard, of Grenelle; Berot, canton d'Issy; Rousselin, section of the Unité; Marchand, section of Mont-Blanc; Grespin, section of Gravilliers." They resign on the 6th of June. -- The commission, at first composed of nine members, ends in comprising eleven (Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 316, official reports of the commune.

May 31.) then 25 (Speech by Pache to the Committee of Public Safety, June 1.)[137] Buchez et Roux XXVII. 306. Official reports of the commune, May 31. - Ibid., 316. Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 319.

[138] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 274 Speech by Hassenfratz to the Jacobin Club, May 27.

[139] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 346 (speech by Lhuillier in the Convention, May 31).

[140] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 302, session of the Convention, May 30.

Words uttered by Hassenfratz, Varlet, and Chabot, and denounced by Lanjuinais.

[141] Madame Roland, "Appel à l'impartiale postérité." Conversation of Madam Roland on the evening of May 31on the Place du Carrusel with an artillerist.

[142] Buchez et Roux, 307-323. Official reports of the commune, May 31.

[143] "Archives Nationales," F7, 2494, register of the revolutionary committee of the Réunion section, official report of May 31, 6 o'clock in the morning.

[144] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 335, session of the Convention, May 31.

Petition presented by the commissaries in the name of forty-eight sections; their credentials show that they are not at first authorized by more than twenty-six sections.

[145] Buchez et Roux, 347, 348. Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 350 (third dispatch of the H?tel-de-ville delegates, present at the session):

"The National Assembly was not able to accept the above important measures. . . until the perturbators of the Assembly, known under the title of the 'Right,' did themselves the justice to perceive that they were not worthy of taking part in them; they evacuated the Assembly, after the great gesticulations and imprecations, to which you know they are liable."[146] Dauban, "La Demagogie en 1793." Diary of Beaulieu, May 31. -Declaration of Henriot, Germinal 4, year III. - Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 351[147] Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 565. Letter of the deputy Loiseau, June 5.

[148] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 352 to 360, 368 to 377. Official reports of the commune, June 1 and 2. Proclamation of the revolutionary committee, June 1. "Your delegates have ordered the arrest of all suspected persons concealing themselves in the sections of Paris. This arrest is in progress in all quarters."[149] "Archives Nationales," F7, 2494. Section of the Réunion, official report, June 1.-- Ibid., June 2. Citizen Robin is arrested on the 2nd of June, "for having manifested opinions contrary to the sovereignty of the people in the National Assembly." The same day a proclamation is made on the territory of the section by a deputation of the commune, accompanied by one member and two drummers, "tending (tendantes) to make known to the people that the country will be saved by awaiting (en atendans) with courage the decree which is to be rendered to prevent traitors (les traitre) from longer sitting in the senate house." -- Ibid., June 4. The committee decides that it will add new members to its number, but they will be taken only from all "good sans-culote; no notary, no notary's clerk, no lawyers nor their clerks, no banker nor rich landlord" being admissible, unless he gives evidence of unmistakable civism since 1789. --Cf. F7, 2497 (section of the Droits de l'Homme), F7, 2484 (section of the Halle-au-blé), the resemblance in orthography and in their acts; the registry of the Piques section (F7, 2475) is one of the most interesting; here may be found the details of the appearance of the ministers before it; the committee that examines them does not even spell their names correctly, "Clavier" being often written for Clavière, and "Goyer" for Gohier.

[150] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 19.

[151] Buchez et Roux, XXVII.357. Official reports of the commune, June 1.

[152] Meillan, 307. -- "Fragment," by Lanuinais. - "Diurnal," of Beaulieu, June 2. - Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 399 (speech by Barère).

[153] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 357. Official reports of the commune, June 1.

[154] Meillan, 53, 58, 307. Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 14 (Précis, by Gordas).

[155] Buchez et Roux, XXVII 359. Official reports of the commune, June 1. "One member of the Council stated that on going to the Beaurepaire section he was not well received; that the president of this section spoke uncivilly to him and took him for an imaginary municipalist;that he was threatened with the lock-up, and that his liberty was solely due to the brave citizens of the Sans-culottes section and the gunners of the Beaurepaire section who went with him." --Preparations for the investment began on the 1st of June. ("Archives Nationales," F7, 2497, official reports of the Droits de l'Homme section, June 1.) Orders of Henriot to the commandant of the section to send "400 homme et la compagnie de canonier avec le 2 pièces de canon au Carouzel le long des Thuilerie plasse de la Révolution."[156] "Lanjuinais states 100,000 men, Meillan 50,000; the deputies of the Somme say 60,000, but without any evidence. Judging by various indications I should put the number much lower, on account of the disarmament and absentees: say 30,000 men, the same as May 31.

[157] Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 566. Letter of the deputy Loiseau: "Ipassed through the whole of one battalion; the men all said that they did not know why the movement was made, that only their officers knew." (June 1.)[158] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 400. Session of the Convention, June 2. -- XXVIII. 43 (report by Saladin).