otine.'"]

[Footnote 5127: Meissner, p. 238.-Fievee, p.127, and following pages.]

[Footnote 5128: Mallet-Dupan, I., 333, and following pages. (Letter of
October 24, 1795.) "Barras does not repeat the mistake made by the
Court on the 10th of April, and shut himself up in the chateau and the
Tuileries; he posts troops and artillery in all the avenues....
Freron and two other representatives, supplied with coin and assignats
collected in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, four or five hundred bandits
which joined the terrorists; these formed the pretended battalions of
the loyal section which had been pompously announced to the Convention.
No section, excepting the" Quinze-vingts," sent its battalion, this
section having separated at the outset from the other forty-seven
sections.... The gardens and court of the Tuileries resembled a feasting
camp, where the Committees caused distributions of wine and all sorts of
provisions; many of their defenders were intoxicated; the troops of the
line were kept loyal with money and drink."--After Vendemiaire 13, the
Convention brings further reinforcements of regular troops into Paris to
keep the city under, amounting to eight or nine thousand men.]

[Footnote 5129: Constitution of year III., Articles VI. and VII.]

[Footnote 5130: Albert Babeau, "Histoire de Troyes," II., 367 and
following pages. Sauzay, "Hist. de la Persecution Revolutionnaire
dans le Doubs," VIII., ch. 52 and 54--Law of Pluviose 4, year IV.,
authorizing the executive Directory to appoint the members who, up to
Thermidor I, year IV., shall compose the municipal bodies of Bordeaux,
Lyons, Marseilles and Paris.]

[Footnote 5131: Decree of Brumaire 3, year IV.]

[Footnote 5132: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 65. (Letter of Gen.
Kermorvan, to the Com. of Public Safety, Valenciennes, Fructidor 22,
year III.) At Valenciennes, during the elections, "the leaders of the
sections used their fists in driving out of the primary assemblies all
the worthy men possessing the necessary qualities for election.... I
knew that the "seal-breakers," (brise-scelles), were the promoters of
these turbulent parties, the patriotic robbers, the men who have wasted
public and private fortunes belonging to the commune, and who are
reveling in the houses and on the estates of the emigres which they have
had awarded to them at a hundred times below their value.. .. All
of them are appointed electors.... They have paid. ... and still pay
agitators