did not know why the movement was made, that only their
officers knew." (June 1.)]

[Footnote 34158: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 400. Session of the Convention,
June 2.----XXVIII. 43 (report by Saladin).]

[Footnote 34159: Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 392. Official report of the
Jacobin Club, June 2 "The deputies were so surrounded as not to be able
to go out even for special purposes."--Ibid., 568 Letter of the deputy
Loiseau.]

[Footnote 34160: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 44. Report by
Saladin.--Meillan, 237.--Mortimer-Ternaux VII. 547. Declaration of the
deputies of the Somme.]

[Footnote 34161: Meillan, 52.--Petion, "Memoires," 109 (Edition
Dauban).--Lanjuinais ("Fragment")--"Nearly all those called Girondists
thought it best to stay away."--Letter of Vergniaud June 3 (in the
Republican Francais, June 5, 1793). "I left the Assembly yesterday
between 1 and 2 o'clock."]

[Footnote 34162: Lanjuinais, "Fragment," 299.]

[Footnote 34163: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 400.]

[Footnote 34164: Robinet, "Le Proces de Danton," 169. Words of Danton
(according to the notes of a juryman, Topino-Lebrun).]

[Footnote 34165: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 44. Report by Saladin.--Meillan,
59.--Lanjuinais, 308, 310.]

[Footnote 34166: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 401]

[Footnote 34167: Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 569. Letter of the deputy
Loiseau.--Meillan, 62.]

[Footnote 34168: Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 341. Speech by Chasles in the
Convention, May 2: "The farmers... are nearly all aristocrats."]

[Footnote 34169: Or workhouses, see Taine: "Notes on England" page
214: "It is an English principle that the indigent, by giving up their
freedom, have a right to be supported. Society pays the cost, but shuts
them up and sets them to work. As this condition is repugnant to them,
they avoid the workhouse as much as possible." Similar institutions
existed in France before the revolution. (SR).]

[Footnote 34170: Sieyes (quoted by Barante, "Histoire de la Convention,"
III. 169) thus describes it: "The fake people, the deadliest enemy which
the French people ever had, blocked incessantly the approaches to the
Convention... At the entrance or exit of the Convention the astonished
spectator thought that a new invasion of barbarian hordes had suddenly
occurred, a new irruption of voracious, sanguinary harpies, flocking
there to seize hold of the revolution as if it were the natural prey of
their species."]

[Footnote 34171: Gouverneur Morris, II. 241. Letter of Oct. 23,