ine of
which I saw the fragments in the court, so intoxicated the people that
I made haste to put an end to an investigation imprudently begun amidst
2,000 sots with naked swords, handled by them very carelessly."]

[Footnote 26100: Napoleon's narrative.--Memoirs of Barbaroux.]

[Footnote 26101: Moniteur, XIII. 387.--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 340.]

[Footnote 26102: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 303. Words of the president
Vergniaud on receiving Louis XVI.--Ibid. 340, 342, 350.]

[Footnote 26103: Mortimer-Ternaux, 356, 357.]

[Footnote 26104: Mortimer-Ternaux, 337. Speech of Huguenin, president of
the Commune, at the bar of the National Assembly: "The people by whom
we are sent to you have instructed us to declare to you that they invest
you anew with its confidence; but they at the same time instruct us to
declare to you that, as judge of the extraordinary measures to which
they have been driven by necessity and resistance to oppression, they k
now no other authority than the French people, your sovereign and ours,
assembled in its primary meetings."]

[Footnote 26105: Duvergier, "Collection des lois et decrets," (between
Aug. 10 and Sept. 20).]

[Footnote 26106: Duvergier, "Collection des lois et decrets," Aug.
11-12. "The National Assembly considering that it has not the right
to subject sovereignty in the formation of a national Convention to
imperative regulations,... invites citizens to conform to the following
rules."]

[Footnote 26107: August 11 (article 8)]

[Footnote 26108: Aug. 10-12 and Aug. 28.]

[Footnote 26109: Ibid., Aug. 10, Aug. 13.--Cf. Moniteur, XIII. 399
(session of Aug. 12).]

[Footnote 26110: Ibid., Aug. 18.]

[Footnote 26111: Aug. 23 and Sep. 3. After the 11th of August the
Assembly passes a decree releasing Saint-Huruge and annulling the
warrant against Antoine.]

[Footnote 26112: Ibid., Aug. 14.]

[Footnote 26113: Ibid., Aug. 14. Decree for dividing the property of
the emigres into lots of from two to four arpents, in order to "multiply
small proprietors."--Ibid., Sept. 2. Other decrees against the emigres
and their relations, Aug. 14, 23, 30, and Sept. 5 and 9.]

[Footnote 26114: Ibid., Aug. 26. Other decrees against the ecclesiastics
or the property of the church, Aug. 17, 18, 19, and Sept. 9 and 19.]

[Footnote 26115: Ibid., Sept. 20.]

[Footnote 26116: Imagine the impression these last lines may have upon
any ardent, ambitious and arrogant young man who, like Lenin in 1907,
would