cobin, who says to him: "Eh,
well, what's all this? Robespierre proscribed! Is it possible? What
is wanted--everything was going on so well!" (It is true that fifty or
sixty heads fell daily.) "I replied, 'Just so, there are some folks that
are never satisfied.'"]

[Footnote 5102: Mallet-Dupan, "Memoires," II., 16. (Letter of January 8,
1795.)--Ibid., "Correspondance avec la cour de Vienne," I., 23, 25, 32,
34, (January 8, 1795, on the four parties com posing the Convention).]

[Footnote 5103: Marshal Marmont: "Memoires," I., 120. (Report of General
Dugommier on the capture of Toulon.) "That memorable day avenged the
general will of a partial and gangrened will, the delirium of which
caused the greatest misfortunes."]

[Footnote 5104: Memorial of the ninety-four survivors Thermidor 30, year
II., acquitted Fructidor 28.]

[Footnote 5105: Carrier indicted Brumaire 21, year III. Decree of arrest
passed by 498 out of 500 votes, Frimaire 3; execution Frimaire 26.
Fouquier-Tinville indicted Frimaire 28; execution Floreal 28, there
being 419 witnesses heard. Joseph Lebon indicted Messidor I, year III.
Trial adjourned to the Somme court, Messidor 29; execution Vendemiaire
24, year IV.]

[Footnote 5106: Cf. chapters 4, 5 and 6 of the present volume. Numbers
of printed documents of this epoch show what these local sovereigns
were. The principal ones in the department of Ain were "Anselm, who had
placed Marat's head in his shop. Duclos, a joiner, living before the
31st of May on his earnings; he became after that a gentleman living
on his rents, owning national domains, sheep, horses and pocket books
filled with assignats. Laimant, a tailor, in debt, furnishing his
apartment suddenly with all the luxuriousness of the ancient regime,
such as beds at one hundred pistoles etc. Alban, mayor, placing seals
everywhere, was a blacksmith and father of a family which he supported
by his labor; all at once he stops working, and passes from a state
of dependence to one of splendor; he has diamonds and earrings, always
wearing new clothes, fine linen shirts, muslin cravates, silk stockings,
etc.; on removing the seals in the houses of those imprisoned and
guillotined, little or nothing was found in them. Alban was denounced
and incarcerated for having obliged a woman of Macon to give him four
hundred francs on promising to interest himself in her husband. Such are
the Ain patriots. Rollet, another, had so frightened the rural districts