itution, both measures were rejected."]

[Footnote 5121: Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris pendant la Revolution."
(Reports of Messidor 1 and 24, year III.) "Good citizens are alarmed
at the numerous pardons granted to the members of the revolutionary
committees." "The release of numerous terrorists is generally turned to
account."--Mallet-Dupan, "Correspondance," etc., I., 259, 261, 321. "The
vilest terrorists have been set free; a part of them confined in the
chateau of Ham have been allowed to escape; they are summoned from all
parts of the kingdom; they even send for them abroad, in Germany, in
Belgium, in Savoy, in Geneva. On reaching Paris they are given leaders
and organized. September 11 and 12 they began to meet publicly in
groups and to use threats. I have proof of emissaries being engaged
in recruiting them in the places I have mentioned and in paying their
expenses to the capital." (Letter of September 26, 1795.)]

[Footnote 5122: Buchez et Roux, XXXVII., 36, 49. (Reports of Merlin de
Douai and Barras on the 13th of Vendemiaire.)--Thibaudeau, "Histoire de
la Convention et du Directoire," I., 209.--Fabre de l'Aude, "Histoire
secrete du Directoire," I., p.10. "The Convention opened the prison
doors to fifteen or eighteen hundred Jacobin lunatics, zealots of
the former members of the Committee of Public Safety."--Mallet Dupan,
(ibid., I., 332, 337, 361,) estimates the numbers of terrorists enrolled
at three thousand.]

[Footnote 5123: Barbe-Marbois, "Memoires,"9.--Meissner, p.246.]

[Footnote 5124: Mallet-Dupan, ibid., I., 282. (Letter of August 16,
1795.) "At Paris, the patriots of 1789 have got the upper hand. The
regicides have the greatest horror of this class because they regard it
as a hundred times more dangerous than pronounced aristocrats." Ibid.,
316.--Meissner, p. 229. "The sectionists want neither a republic nor
monarchy but simply intelligent and honest men for the places in the new
Convention."]

[Footnote 5125: Lavalette, "Memoires," I., 162, 170.]

[Footnote 5126: Meissner, p. 236.--Any number of details show the
features and characters of the male and female Jacobins here referred
to. For example, Carnot, ("Memoires," I., 581,) says in his narrative
of the foregoing riot, (Prairial 1st.): "A creature with a horrible face
put himself astride my bench and kept constantly repeating: 'To-day is
the day we'll make you passer le gout de pain? and furies posted in the
tribunes, made signs of the guill