zed by the patriot Palloy, Presidial 20, year II. (Dauban, Paris
en 1794, p.187).]

[Footnote 1139: It cost one million two hundred thousand francs, besides
the traveling expenses of eight thousand delegates.]

[Footnote 1140: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 439, and following pages.
Proces verbal of he National Festival of the 10th of August.--Dauban "La
Demagogie en 1791." (Extract from the Republican Ritual.)]

[Footnote 1141: Moniteur, XVII., 366. (Session of Aug. 11. Speech by
Lacroix and decree in conformity therewith.)]

[Footnote 1142: Ibid., 374. "Remember that you are accountable to the
nation and the universe for this sacred Ark. Remember that it is your
duty to die rather than suffer a sacrilegious hand....."]

[Footnote 1143: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 358. It is evident from the
context of the speech that Robespierre and the Jacobins were desirous of
maintaining the Convention because they foresaw Girondist elections.]

[Footnote 1144: Moniteur, XVII., 382. (Session of Aug. 12. Speech by
Lacroix).]

[Footnote 1145: Ibid., 387.--Cf. Ibid., 410, session of August 16. The
delegates return there to insist on a levy, en masse, the levy of the
first class not appearing sufficient to them. (levy means mobilization
of all men)--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 464. Delegate Royer, Cure of
Chalons-sur-Saone, demands that the aristocrats "chained together in
sixes" be put in the front rank in battle "to avoid the risks of sauve
qui peut."]

[Footnote 1146: Decrees of August 14 and 16.]

[Footnote 1147: Moniteur, XVII., 375.]

[Footnote 1148: Riouffe, "Memoires," 19: "An entire generation, the
real disciples of Jean-Jacques, Voltaire and Diderot, could be, and was
annihilated, to a large extent under the pretext of federalism."]

[Footnote 1149: Moniteur, XVII., 102. (Speech by Cambon, July 11, 1793).
Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. (Speech of General Wimpffen to
the "Societe des amis de la Liberte et de l'Egalite," in session at
Cherbourg, June 25, 1793). "Sixty-four departments have already revoked
the powers conferred on their representatives." Meillan, "Memoires," 72:
"The archives of Bordeaux once contained the acts passed by seventy-two
departments, all of which adhered to measures nearly the same as those
indicted in our documents."]

[Footnote 1150: Buchez et Roux, XVIII., 148.--Meillan, 70, 71.--Guillon
de Montleon, I., 300 (on Lyons) and I., 280 (on Bordeaux). Archives
Nationales, AF II., 46. (Deliberations