the Marquis of Gontant, M. de Vandeuil, former maitre de
requetes, M. Garnier, former conseiller au Chatelet of Paris and others
of the same order, all electors. It is another world; in one month we
have gone back five years."--Ibid., 343, 350, 359, 373.]

[Footnote 5142: Barbe-Marbois, "Journal d'un Deporte," preface, p.
XIV. "Outside of five or six men who might be regarded as 'suspects'
of royalism the most animated were only really irritated against the
despotic conduct and depredations of the directors and not against the
republican system."]

[Footnote 5143: Mallet-Dupan, ibid:, I., 369. (Letter of Nov.22,
1795.) "Never would the resistance of the sections have shown itself
so unanimously and so perseveringly without the promptings of the two
hundred monarchist members of the convention and the aid they promised.
They had engaged to enter the tribune and support the cause of Paris,
to carry the majority and, in case they did not succeed in revoking the
decree respecting the two-thirds, to withdraw from the Convention and
come and take their seats with the sections; the pusillanimity of
these two hundred members caused the failure of these promises... . I
guarantee the authenticity of this statement."]

[Footnote 5144: Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," pp.103,
106. "The Constitution has been adopted by a very small number of
citizens, for, in the section of the Nord only one hundred and fifty
voters at most are found amongst twelve hundred or fifteen hundred
estimated. (September 6, 1795.)--On Tuesday, November 10, "the section
assemblies of Evreux completed their nominations of juge de paix and of
its assessors and five municipal officers. It took time, because there
were a great many who declined."]

[Footnote 5145: Thibaudeau, "Memoires sur le Convention et le
Directoire," II., 58.--Mallet-Dupan, ("Correspondance, etc.," II., 281.)
Dufort de Cheverney, ("Memoires" in manuscript). He is at Vendome and
attends the trial out of curiosity. "Germain, cheerful and witty,
makes fun of the jurymen: they are really stupid, said he, not to see
conspiracy when there was as complete a one as ever existed.... Besides,
I conspired and always shall."]

[Footnote 5146: "Souvenir et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p. 118
(March 24, 1797).]

[Footnote 5147: Dufort de Cheverney, "Memoires," (March, 1797).]

[Footnote 5148: Albert Babeau, II., 408, et seq. (Address of the
administrators of Aube for the electi