d placing them himself on
the river bank, gives the command to fire and to throw them in. Hezine
and Gidoum shout Vive la Nation! Gidouin then says to Lepetit: "You
don't mean to stop with those four peasants? won't you give us a
few cures?" Five priests are shot.--At Beaugency, there is a fresh
fusillade. The leaders take the best part of the spoil. Among other
objects, Lepetit has a coffer sent into his chamber and takes the
effects it contains and sells a bed and mattress beside.]

[Footnote 5136: Ibid., (March, 1796). "Meanwhile, the young men who were
recruited, hid themselves: Bonnard made them pay, and still made them
set out. Baillon, quartermaster in the war, told me that he had paid
Bonnard 900,000 livres in assignats in twelve days, and 1,400,000 in
twenty days; there were 35,000 in the memoir for pens, penknives, ink,
and paper."]

[Footnote 5137: Mallet-Dupan, "Correspondance, etc.," I., 383. (Letter
of Dec.13, 1795.) "The Directory keeps on filling the offices with
Terrorists. The government agents in the departments arbitrarily set
aside the constituted authorities and replace them with Jacobins."]

[Footnote 5138: Province in ancient Turkey governed by a Pasha. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5139: Thibaudeau, "Histoire de la Convention," I., 243.
"Tallien, Barras, Chenier and Louvet talked of nothing but of annulling
the elections.... Nothing was heard at the bar and in the tribunals but
the most revolutionary propositions. The 'Mountain' showed incredible
audacity. The public tribunes were filled with confederates who
applauded furiously... Tallien and Barras ruled and shared the
dictatorship between them. Since 13th of Vendemiaire, the Convention no
longer deliberated except when in the middle of a camp; the exterior,
the tribunes, even the hall itself are invested by soldiers and
terrorists."--Mallet Dupan, "Correspondance, etc.," I., 248. (Letter of
Oct. 31, 1795.)]

[Footnote 5140: Thibaudeau, Ibid., I., 246, et seq.--Moniteur. (Session
of Brumaire 1.) Speech by Thibaudeau.]

[Footnote 5141: Mallet-Dupan, ibid., I., 328. (Letter Oct. 4, 1795.)
"Nearly all the electors nominated at Paris are former administrators,
distinguished and sensible writers, persons recommendable through their
position, fortune and intelligence. They are the royalists of 1789, that
is to say about in the sense of the constitution of 1791, essentially
changed fundamentally. M. d'Ormesson, former comptroller-general of
the Treasury,