that the people ran away on his approach; on one occasion he had two
of them harnessed to his carriage and drove them along for some time in
this manner... Another, Charcot (of Virieu), before the Revolution, was
a highway assassin, and was banished for three years for an act of this
description." (Bibliotheque Nationale. Lb. 41, No. 1318. "The truth in
reply to calumnious charges against the department of Ain." Letter of
Roux, Vendemiaire, year III.)]

[Footnote 5107: Decree of Germinal 12, year III: for the transportation
of Collot, Barere, Billaud-Varennes and Vadier. Eight Montagnards are
put under arrest.--Decree of Germinal 14: the same against nine
other Montagnards.?Decree of Germinal 29: the same against
Maribon-Montant.--Decree of Prairial 6: twenty-nine Montagnards
are indicted.--Decree of Prairial 8: putting six Montagnards under
arrest.--Decree of Prairial 9: the same against nine members of
former committees.--Decrees of Prairial 10 to Thermidor 22, year III:
condemning 6 Montagnards to death, one to transportation and twenty put
under arrest.]

[Footnote 5108: Barbe-Marbois," Memoires," preface, p. VIII. "Except
about fifty men who are honest and intelligent, history presents
no sovereign assembly containing so much vice, abjectness and
ignorance."??Buchez et Roux, XXXVII., 7. (Speech by Legendre, Thermidor
17, year III.) "It is stated in print that, at most, there are but
twenty pure men in this Assembly."--Ibid., 27. Order of the Lepelletier
section, Vendemiaire 10, year IV. "It is certain that we owe the dearth
and all its accompanying evils to the incapacity and brigandage of the
present government."]

[Footnote 5109: Mallet-Dupan, "Correspondance," etc., I., 211. (May 27,
1795.)]

[Footnote 5110: "Un Sejour en France," 267. 271, (Amiens, March 13,
April 12, 1795.)]

[Footnote 5111: Meissner, "Voyage a Paris," 123, 351. (The author
arrives in Paris, September 22, 1795.)]

[Footnote 5112: Decrees of Fructidor 5 and 13, year III.]

[Footnote 5113: Mallet-Dupan ("Correspondance avec la cour de Vienne,"
I., 292, August 30, 1795).--Moniteur, XXV., 518, 551. (Session of
Fructidor 3.) The first idea of the commission of Eleven was to have the
Convention itself choose the two-thirds. "Its opponents took advantage
of the public outcry and broke off this plan.... of the Girondist
cabal." Louvet, Fructidor 3, mounted three times into the tribune to
support this project, still more scandalous than the ot