ur, XV.180, session
of Jan. 16.--Buchez et Roux, XXIV. 292.--Moniteur, XV. 182. Letter
of the mayor of Paris, Jan. 16.--Ibid., 179. Letter of Roland, Jan.
16.--Buchez et Roux, XXIV. 448. Report by Santerre.]
[Footnote 3438: Buchez et Roux, XXV. 23 to 26.--Mortimer-Ternaux, VI.
184 (Manifesto of the central committee, March 9, 2 o'clock in the
morning).-Ibid. 193. Narrative of Fournier at the bar of the Convention,
March 12.--Report of the mayor of Paris, March 10.--Report of the
Minister of Justice, March 13.--Meillan, 24.--Louvet, 72, 74.]
[Footnote 3439: Petion, "Memoires," 106 (Ed. Dauban): "How many times I
heard, 'You rascal, we'll have your head!' And I have no doubt that they
often planned my assassination."]
[Footnote 3440: Taillandier, "Documents biographiques," on Daunou
(Narrative by Daunou), p. 38.--Doulcet de Pontecoulant, "Memoires," I.
139: "It was then that the 'Mountain' used all the means of intimidation
it knew so well how to bring into play, filling the galleries with its
satellites, who shouted out to each other the name of each deputy as
he stepped up to the president's table to give his vote, and yelling
savagely at every one who did not vote for immediate and unconditional
death.--Carnot, "Memoires," I.293. Carnot voted for the death of the
king; yet afterward he avowed that "Louis XVI. would have been saved, if
the Convention had not held its deliberations under the dagger."]
[Footnote 3441: Durand-Maillane, 35, 38, 57.]
[Footnote 3442: An expression by Dussaulx, in his "Fragments pour servir
a l'histoire de la Convention."]
[Footnote 3443: Madame Roland, "Memoires," ed. Barriere et Berville, II.
52.--(Note by Roland.)]
[Footnote 3444: Moniteur, XV, 187. Cambaceres votes: "Louis has incurred
the penalties established in the penal code against conspirators... The
execution to be postponed until hostilities cease. In case of invasion
of the French territory by the enemies of the republic, the decree to be
enforced."--On Barrere, see Macaulay's crushing article in "Biographical
Essays."]
[Footnote 3445: Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du Lundi," V. 209. ("Sieyes,"
according to his unpublished manuscripts.)]
[Footnote 3446: Madame Roland, II.56. Note by Roland.]
[Footnote 3447: Mortimer-Ternaux, V. 476.]
[Footnote 3448: Mortimer-Ternaux, V. 513.]
[Footnote 3449: Comte de Segur, "Memoires." I. 13.]
[Footnote 3450: Harmand de la Meuse (member of the Convention),
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