ons of year V.)--Ibid., 414.
(Speech by Herlinson, Librarian of the Ecole Centrale at Troyes,
Thermidor 10, year V. in the large hall of the Hotel-de-Ville, before
the commissioners of the Directory, and received with unbounded
applause.) "The patriots consisted of fools, madmen and knaves, the
first in their illusions, the second in their dreams and the third in
their acts.... Everywhere you would see two or three executioners, a
dozen satellites, of whom one-half trembled for their lives, and about
a hundred witnesses, most of them in spite of themselves, against
thousands of victims.... Vengeance is not necessary; never was special
vengeance of any benefit to the public. Let them rest in their slough,
let them live as objects of contempt and horror."-Cf. Sauzay, VIII.,
p.659 et seq.]

[Footnote 5149: Thibaudeau, II., 152, 153.--Mallet-Dupan, II., 262.]

[Footnote 5150: Mallet-Dupan, II., 265, 268, 278.]

[Footnote 5151: Thibaudeau, II., 244, 248.]

[Footnote 5152: Carnot, "Memoires," II., 108. "Not fifteen leaders.
"--Lacretelle, "Dix Annees d'Epreuves," p.308. "Twenty or thirty
men devoted to monarchical opinions, but who did not dare state them
openly."]

[Footnote 5153: Mallet-Dupan, II., 267, 278, 331.]

[Footnote 5154: Mallet-Dupan, II., 265. "Not only have they discarded
(at Paris) the Republicans, but even those among the old Constituents,
known or denounced for having taken too important a part in the first
revolution.... Men have been chosen who aspired to a modified and not
perverted monarchy. The suffrages have equally distanced themselves from
the sectarian royalists of the ancient regime as well as the violent
anti-revolutionaries."]

[Footnote 5155: Mallet-Dupan, 11., 298. "The deputies never attack a
revolutionary law, but they are mistrusted of some design of destroying
the results of the Revolution, and every time they speak of regulating
the Republic they are accused of ill-will to the Republic."]

[Footnote 5156: Thibaudeau, II., 171.--Carnot, II., 106.--The programme
of Barthelemy is contained in this simple phrase: "I would render
the Republic administrative." On the foreign policy, his ideas, so
temperate, pacific and really French, are received with derision by the
other Directors. (Andre Lebon, "Angleterre et l'Emigration Francaise,"
p. 335.)]

[Footnote 5157: Mathieu Dumas, "Souvenirs," III., 153.--Camille Jordan.
(Letter to his constituents on the Revolution, Fructidor 18, p.26.)