"The
Constitution, the Constitution alone, is the rallying word at Clichy."
--Barbe-Marbois, "Souvenirs d'un Deporte," I., page 12 and preface. "The
largest number wanted to disregard the future and forget the past."]

[Footnote 5158: Mallet-Dupan, II., 336. "Eighty of the deputies who were
menaced have slept elsewhere since the 30th of August, keeping together
in one domicile for fear of being carried off at night."--Mathieu
Dumas, III., 10. "I could no longer occupy my house in Paris, rue
Fosses-du-Temple, without risking an attack from the sbirri (Italian
police officers) of the Directory, who pro claimed in the clubs that the
people must be avenged in (our) houses. "--Mallet-Dupan, II. 343. "This
pretended conspiracy imputed to the councils by the triumvirs, is a
romance similar to those of Robespierre."--Ibid., 346. "There has been
no conspiracy, properly so-called, of the Legislative Corps against the
Directory."--Only, "every constitution in France kills the Revolution if
the Revolutionary leaders has not destroyed in time. And this, because
four-fifths of France being detached from the Revolution, the elections
will put into the legislative and administrative offices men who were
opposed to the Revolution."]

[Footnote 5159: Lord Malmesbury, "Diaries," II., 544. (September 9,
1797.) The words of Mr. Colchen.) "He went on to say that all the
persons arrested are the most estimable and most able men in the
Republic. It is for this reason and not from any principles of royalism
(for such principles do not belong to them) that they are sentenced to
transportation. They would have supported the constitution, but in doing
that they would have circumscribed the authority of the executive power
and have taken from the Directory the means of acquiring and exercising
undue authority."]

[Footnote 5160: Barbe-Marbois, "Journal d'un Deporte," preface, p. XVI.]

[Footnote 5161: Mathieu Dumas, III., 84, 86.]

[Footnote 5162: De Goncourt, "La Societe Francaise pendant le
Directoire," 298, 386. Cf. the The, the Grondeur, the Censeur des
journaux, Paris, and innumerable pamphlets.--In the provinces, the
Anti-Terrorist, at Toulouse the Neuf Thermidor, at Besancon, the Annales
Troyennes at Troyes, etc.]

[Footnote 5163: Mallet-Dupan, II., 309, 316, 323, 324, 329, 333, 339,
347. "To defend themselves constitutionally, whilst the Directory
attacks revolutionarily, is to condemn themselves to inevitable
perdition."--"Had it a