rand-Maillane,100: "The Girondist party was yet more
impious than Robespierre."--A deputy having demanded that mention
should be made of the Supreme Being in the preamble of the constitution,
Vergniaud replied: "We have no more to do with Numa's nymph than
with Mahomet's pigeon; reason is sufficient to give France a good
constitution."--Buchez et Roux, XIII. 444. Robespierre having spoken of
the Emperor Leopold's death as a stroke of Providence, Guadet replies
that he sees "no sense in that idea," and blames Robespierre for
"endeavoring to return the people to slavery of superstition."--Ibid.,
XXVI. 63 (session of April 19, 1793). Speech by Vergniaud against
article IX of the Declaration of Rights, which states that "all men are
free to worship as they please." This article, says Vergniaud, "is a
result of the despotism and superstition under which we have so long
languished."--Salle: "I ask the Convention to draw up an article by
which each citizen, whatever his form of worship, shall bind himself
to submit to the law "--Lanjuinais, who often ranked along with the
Girondists, is a Catholic and confirmed Gallican.]

[Footnote 3359: Schmidt, I. 347 (Dutard, May 30). "What do I now behold?
A discontented people hating the Convention, all its administrators, and
the actual state of things generally."]

[Footnote 3360: Schmidt, I. 278. (Dutard, May 23).]

[Footnote 3361: Schmidt, I. 216 (Dutard, May 13).]

[Footnote 3362: Schmidt, I. 240 (Dutard, May 17).]

[Footnote 3363: Schmidt, I. 217 (Dutard, May 13).]

[Footnote 3364: Schmidt, I. 163 (Dutard, April 30).]

[Footnote 3365: Schmidt, II. 377 (Dutard, June 13). Cf. Ibid., II. 80.
(Dutard, June 21): "If the guillotining of the Thirty-Two were
subject to a roll call, and the vote a secret one I declare to you no
respectable man would fail to hasten in from the country to give his
vote and that none of those now in Paris would fail to betake themselves
to their section."]

[Footnote 3366: Schmidt, II. 35 (Dutard, June 13). On the sense of these
two words, inferior aristocracy, Cf. All of Dutard's reports and those
of other observers in the employ of Garat.]

[Footnote 3367: Schmidt, II. 37 (Dutard, June 13).]

[Footnote 3368: Schmidt, I. 328 (Perriere, May 28): "Intelligent men
and property-owners abandoned the section assemblies and handed them to
others as these were places where the workman's fist prevailed against
the speaker's tongue."--Moniteur. XV. 114 (sess