书城公版The Origins of Contemporary France
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One could go from one end of the town to the other without meeting any one he could call an inhabitant. The great terrorists, of whom scarcely one was a Marseillaise, the soldiers and roughs as they called themselves, were almost the only persons encountered." The latter, to the number of fifty or sixty, in jackets with leather straps, fell upon all whom they did not like, and especially on anybody with a clean shirt and white cravat. Many persons on the "Cours" were thus whipped to death. No women went out-doors without a basked, while every man wore a jacket, without which they were taken for aristocrats. (II., 94.)[92] "Mémoires de Fréron." (Collection Barrière and Berville).

Letters of Fréron to Moise Bayle, Brumaire 23, Pluviose 5 and 11, Novose 16, II, published by Moise Bayle, also details furnished by Huard, pp. 350-365. - Archives Nationales, AF. II., 144. (Order of representatives Fréron, Barras, Salicetti and Richard, Novose 17, year II.)[93] Mallet-Dupan, II., 17. - Guillon de Montléon, II., 259.

[94] Ibid., II., 281. (Decree of the Convention, Oct. 12); II. 312.

(Orders of Couthon and his colleagues, Oct. 25); II., 366-372(Instructions of the temporary commission, Brumaire 26).

[95] Ibid. III., 153-156. Letter of Laporte to Couthon, April 13, 1794.

[96] The contemporary French Encyclopedia "QUID" ed. Lafont, 1996states on page 755 that according to Louis Marie Prudhomme there were 31 000 victims at Lyons. (SR.)[97] Ibid. II. 135-137. (Resolutions of the Revolutionary Commission, Germinal 17.) and Letters of Cadillot to Robespierre, Floréal, year II). III., 63.

[98] Guillon de Montléon, II., 399. (Letter of Perrotin, member of the temporary commission to the revolutionary committee of Moulin.)"The work before the new commission may be considered as an Organization of the Septembrisade; the process will be the same but legalized by an act passed."[99] Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 192. (Decree of October 12).

[100] Ibid., XXX., 457. (Decree of November 23).

[101] "Mémoires de Fréron." (Letter of Fréron, Nivose 6). - Guillon de Montléon, II., 391.

[102] Decrees of October 12 and December 24. - Archives Nationales, AF. II., 44. The representatives on mission wanted to do the same thing with Marseilles. (Orders of Fréron, Barras, Salicetti, and Ricard, Niv?se 17, year II.) "The name of Marseilles, still borne by this criminal city, shall be changed. The National Convention shall be requested to give it another name. Meanwhile it shall remain nameless and be thus known." In effect, in several subsequent documents, Marseilles is called the nameless commune.

[103] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 204. (Session of June 24: "Strong expressions of dissent are heard on the right." Legendre, "I demand that the first rebel, the first man there (pointing to the "Right"party) who interrupts the speaker, be sent to the Abbaye." Couhey, indeed, was sent to the Abbaye for applauding a Federalist speech. -Cf. on these three months. - Mortimer-Ternaux, vol. VIII.

[104] Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 175. - Dauban: "La Démagogie à Paris en 1793," 436 (Narrative by Dulaure, an eye-witness).

[105] There were really only twenty-two brought before the revolutionary tribunal.

[106] Dauban, XXVI., p. 440. (Narrative of Blanqui, one of the seventy-three.)[107] Buchez et Roux. XXIX., 178, 179. Osselin: "I demand the decree of accusation against them all." - Amar: "The apparently negative conduct of the minority of the Convention since the 2nd of June, was a new plot devised by Barbaroux." Robespierre: "If there are other criminals among those you have placed under arrest the Committee of General Security will present to you the nomenclature of them and you will always be at liberty to strike."[108] Ibid., XXIX., 432, 437, 447. - Report by Amar. (this report served as the bill of indictment against them, "cowardly satellites of royal despotism, vile agents of foreign tyrants." - Wallon, II., 407, 409. (Letter of Fouquier-Tinville to the convention). "After the special debates, will not each of the accused demand a general prosecution? The trial, accordingly, will be interminable. Besides, one may ask why should there be witnesses? The convention, all France, accuses those on trial. The evidence of their crimes is plain;everybody is convinced of their guilt. . . . It is the Convention which must remove all formalities that interfere with the course pursued by the tribunal." - Moniteur, XVII., (Session of October 28), 291. The decree provoked by a petition of Jacobins, is passed on motion of Osselin, aggravated by Robespierre.

[109] Louvet, "Mémoires," 321. (List of the Girondists who perished or who were proscribed. Twenty-four fugitives survived.)[110] Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 395, 416, 435. The terror and disgust of the majority is seen in the small number of voters. Their abstention from voting is the more significant in relation to the election of the dictators. The members of the Committee of Public Safety, elected on the 16th of July, obtain from one hundred to one hundred and ninety-two votes. The members of the Committee of Security obtain from twenty-two to one hundred and thirteen votes.

The members of the same committee, renewed on the 11th of September, obtain from fifty-two to one hundred and eight votes. The judges of the revolutionary tribunal, completed on the 3rd of August, obtain from forty-seven to sixty-five votes. - Meillan, 85. (In relation to the institution of the revolutionary government, on motion of Bazire, Aug. 28). "Sixty or eighty deputies passed this decree. . . it was preceded by another passed by a plurality of thirty against ten.