书城公版The Origins of Contemporary France
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[142] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 12. (Extract from the Memoirs of Sénart.) "The certified copies of these drafts are on file with the committee of General Security."[143] Report of Courtois, 360. (Letters of Julien to Robespierre, Pluvi?se 15 and 16, year II.) - Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 199, 200, 202, 203, 211. (Depositions of Villemain, Monneron, Legros, Robin.) -Berryat Saint-Prix, 35. (Depositions of Fourrier, and of Louise Courant, sempstress.)[144] See, on Tallien," Mémoires de Sénart." - On Javogues, Moniteur, XXIV., 461, Floreal 24, III. Petition against Javogues, with several pages of signatures, especially those of the inhabitants of Montbrison: "In the report made by him to the Convention he puts down coin and assignats at seven hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred and ninety-six francs, while the spoils of one person provided him with five hundred thousand francs in cash." - On Fouché, De Martel, 252. - On Dumont, Mallet-Dupan, "Manuscript notes." (January, 1795.) On Rovère, Michelet, VI., 256. - Carnot, II., 87. (According to the Memoirs of the German Olsner, who was in Paris under the Directory:) "The tone of Barras' Salon was that of a respectable gambling house; the house of Reubell resembled the waiting-room of an inn at which the mail-coach stops."[145] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 391, and XXXIII., 9. (Extracts from the Memoirs of Sénart.)[146] Carnot, "Mémoires," I. 416. Carnot, having shown to the Committee of Public Safety, proofs of the depredations committed on the army of the North, Saint-Just got angry and exclaimed: "It is only an enemy of the Republic that would accuse his colleagues of depredations, as if patriots hadn't a right to everything!"[147] As to Caligula see Suetonius and Philo.- With respect to Hakem, see "L'Exposé de la Religion des Druses," by M. de Sacy.

[148] Saint-Just, speaking in the Convention, says: "What constitutes a republic is the utter destruction of whatever is opposed to it."[149] Orders issued by Saint-Just and Lebas for the departments of Pas-de-Calais, Nord, la Somme et l'Aisne. - Cf. "Histoire de l'Alsace," by Str?bel, and "Recueil de pieces authentiques pour servir à l'histoire de la Révolution à Strasbourg," 3 vols.-Archives Nationales AF., II., 135, orders issued Brumaire 10, year II., and list of the one hundred and ninety-three persons taxed.

[150] Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 32. (Saint-Just's reply to Mayor Monet.)- De Sybel, II., 447, 448. At the first interview Saint-Just said to Schneider: "Why use so much ceremony? You know the crimes of the aristocrats? In the twenty-four hours taken for one investigation you might have twenty-four condemned."[151] "Journal de marche du sergent Fricasse," p.34. (Narrative by Marshal Soult.)[152] Cf. in the Bible, the story of Ahasuerus who, out of respect for his own majesty, can-not retract the order he has issued against the Jews, but he turns the difficulty by allowing them to defend themselves.

[153] Mallet-Dupan, II., 47.

[154] Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire," XVII.-Marcelin Boudet, "Les Conventionnels d'Auvergne," 269. - Moniteur, Brumaire 27, year III., report by Calès.

[155] Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," I., 371; II., 341, 344.-De Martel, "Fouché," 153. - Berryat Saint-Prix, 347, 348.