hundred times more ability the Legislative Corps
without boldness is a lightning flash without thunder."--"With greater
resources than Louis XVI. had in 1792, the Legislative Corps acts like
this prince and will share his fate, unless it returns war for war,
unless it declares that the first generals who dare send out the
deliberations of their armies are traitors to the State."--"It is
owing to the temporizing of the legislative councils, to the fatal
postponement of the attack on the Luxembourg in the middle of August, on
which Pichegru, Villot, General Miranda and all the clairvoyant deputies
insisted on,.... it is owing to foolishly insisting on confining
themselves to constitutional defenses,... it is owing to the necessity
which the eighty firm and energetic deputies found of conciliating three
hundred others who could not agree on the end as well as the means,
which brought about the catastrophe of the Councils."]

[Footnote 5164: Carnot, "Memoires," II., 161. "The evil having reached
its last stage, it was necessary to have a 10th of June instead of a
31st of May."--Mallet-Dupan, II., 333, 334. The plan for canceling the
military division of the Interior under Augereau's command was to be
carried out between the 15th and 20th of August. If the triumvirate
should resist, Pichegru and Villot were to march on the Luxembourg.
Carnot refused to accept the project "unless he might name the three new
Directors."--De la Rue, "Histoire du 18 Fructidor." Carnot said to the
Moderates who asked him to act with them: "Even if I had a pardon in
my pocket, amply confirmed by the royal mouth, I should have no
confidence."]

[Footnote 5165: Occupied by the members of the Directory.]

[Footnote 5166: Mathieu Dumas, "Memoires," III., 113.]

[Footnote 5167: Mallet-Dupan, II., 327. "Barras is the only one who
plays squarely and who, taking the risk, wants Jacobinism to triumph
par fas et nefas."--Ibid., 339. "The triumvirs hesitated up to Friday;
Barras, the most furious of the three, and master of Augereau, decided
his two colleagues."--Ibid, 351. "Barras and Reubell, by dint
of exciting the imagination of that poor little philosophizer La
Revelliere, succeeded in converting him."--Thibaudeau, II., 272. "It
was Barras who bore off the honors of dictatorship that night... . La
Revelliere shut himself up in his house as in an impenetrable sanctuary.
Reubell, at this moment, his head somewhat affected, was watched in his
apartment