ve a la Revolution," 83, 85.]

[Footnote 3451: Meissner, 148, "Voyage a Paris" (last months of 1795).
Testimony of the regicide Audrein.]

[Footnote 3452: Louvet, 775.]

[Footnote 3453: Meillan, 16.]

[Footnote 3454: Remark by M. Guirot ("Memoires"), II. 73.]

[Footnote 3455: Moniteur, XIV. 432, session of Nov. 10, 1792. Speech
by Cambon: "That is the reason why I shall always detest the 2nd of
September; for never will I approve of assassinations." In the same
speech he justifies the Girondists against any reproach of federalism.]

[Footnote 3456: "Le Marechal Davoust," by Madame de Bocqueville. Letter
of Davoust, battalion officer, June 2, 1793: "We are animated with the
spirit of Lepelletier, which is all that need be said with respect
to our opinions and what we will do in the coming crisis, in which,
perhaps, a faction will try to plunge us anew into a civil war between
the departments and Paris. Perfidious eloquence... conservative
Tartufes."]

[Footnote 3457: Moniteur, XIV. 738. Report by Cambon, Dec. 15. "On the
way French generals are to act in countries occupied by the armies
of the republic." This important document is a true manifesto of the
Revolution.--Buchez et Roux, XXVII 140, session of May 20, and XXVI.
177, session of April 27, speech by Cambon: "The department of Herault
says to this or that individual: 'You are rich; your opinions cause us
expenditure.. I mean to fix you to the Revolution in spite of yourself.
You shall lend your fortune to the republic, and when liberty is
established the republic will return your capital to you.--"I should
like, then, following the example of the department of Herault, that the
Convention should organize a civic loan of one billion, to be supplied
by egoists and the indifferent.--Decree of May 20, "passed almost
unanimously. A forced loan of one billion shall be made on wealthy
citizens."]

[Footnote 3458: Meillan. 100.]

[Footnote 3459: Speech by Ducos, March 20. "We must choose between
domestic education and liberty. So long as the poor and the rich are
not brought close together through a common education, in vain will
your laws proclaim sacred equality!"--Rabaut-Saint-Etienne: "In every
township a national temple will be erected, in which every Sunday
its municipal officers will give moral instruction to the assembled
citizens. This instruction will be drawn from books approved of by
the legislative body, and followed by hymns also approved of by th