her. "Eh, what
electoral assembly could be better than yours! You all know each other
well." Louvet adds this significant expression: "The armies also will
vote the new constitution. I have no fears of its fate."]

[Footnote 5114: Moniteur, XXII, 22. (Report of Lindet, 4th
sans-culottide, year II.) "Each man confines himself to his family and
calculates his resources."]

[Footnote 5115: Meissner, 58.]

[Footnote 5116: Decree of Fructidor s. "All Frenchmen who voted at the
last primary assemblies will be admitted to vote on the acceptance
of the Constitution."--Archives Nationales, A. II. B. 638. (General
recapitulation of the vote on the Constitution of the year III and on
the decrees of Fructidor 5 and 13 printed by order of the Convention
Vendemiaire, year IV.) Number of voters on the constitutional bill,
1,107,368.]

[Footnote 5117: Moniteur, XXV., 637. (Address to Frenchmen by
Lareveillere-Lepeaux, in the name of the Commission of Eleven, affixed
to the decree of Fructidor 13.) "Let all opposition to the legitimacy of
this measure cease! The only legitimate measure is that which saves the
country! Besides, if the majority of the primary assemblies of France
approve of it, who dares say that the people would have renounced its
sovereignty in thus expressing its will!"--Cf. Sauzay, VII., 653 to
667, on the details and circumstances of the elections in one of the
departments.]

[Footnote 5118: Archives Nationales1 A. II. B., 688. (Proces-verbaux
of the primary meetings of Seine-Inferieure, Dieppe, "Liberte" section,
session of Fructidor 20.) The constitution is unanimously accepted by
forty-four voters, on a call of names. Then, "before proceeding to the
nomination of electors the law was read, concerning the mode of electing
the two-thirds of the National Convention. The President having asked if
any one wished to speak on this law the order of the day was immediately
called for on all sides." The electors are appointed forthwith and the
assembly adjourns.-The clerk, who has to draw up the minutes, writes
on the margin "forty-four voters unanimously accept the Constitution as
well as the decrees of Fructidor 5 and 13," which is false. It is clear
that the scribe had been instructed to enlarge the number of votes
accepting the decrees, which suggests doubts on the truth of the total
furnished by the convention.]

[Footnote 5119: Ibid., A. II. B., 638 (General recapitulation). I
have taken the number of primary