."]

[Footnote 5168: Mallet-Dupan, II., 304, 305, 331.--Carnot, II., 117.]

[Footnote 5169: Barbe-Marbois, "Journal d'un Deporte," pp.34 and 35.]

[Footnote 5170: Mallet-Dupan, II., 343.]

[Footnote 5171: Barbe-Marbois, ibid., p.46.]

[Footnote 5172: Mallet-Dupan, II., 228, 342. "The use the triumvirs
intended to make of D'Entraigues' portfolio was known two months
ago."--cf. Thibaudeau, II., 279, on the vagueness, scanty proof and
gross falsity of the charges made by the Directory.]

[Footnote 5173: Barbe-Marbois, ibid., p.46.]

[Footnote 5174: Lord Malmesbury. "Diary," III., 559 (Sep. 17th,
1797). At Lille, after the news of the coup d'etat, "it was a curious
circumstance to see the horror that prevailed everywhere lest the system
of Terror should be revived. People looked as if some exterminating
spirit were approaching. The actors in the theatre partook of the
sensation. The Director called Paris, said to Ross, on his paying him:
'Nous allons actuellement etre vandalises.' "]

[Footnote 5175: Decrees of Fructidor 18 and 19, year V., Article 39.]

[Footnote 5176: Thibaudeau, II., 277. "I went to the meeting of
Fructidor 20, the avenues of the Odeon were besieged with those
subaltern agents of revolution who always show themselves after
commotion, like vultures after battles. They insulted and threatened the
vanquished and lauded the victors."]

[Footnote 5177: Ibid., II. 309.]

[Footnote 5178: Ibid., II., 277. "As soon as I entered the hall several
deputies came with tears in their eyes to clasp me in their arms. The
Assembly all had a lugubrious air, the same as the dimly lighted theatre
in which they met; terror was depicted on all countenances; only a few
members spoke and took part in the debates. The majority was impassible,
seeming to be there only to assist at a funeral spectacle, its own."]

[Footnote 5179: Decree of Fructidor 1, articles 4 and 5, 16 and 17,
28, 29 and 30, 35, and decree of Fructidor 22.-Sauzay, IX., 103.
Three hundred communes of the department are thus purged after
Fructidor.-Ibid., 537, the same weeding-out of jurymen.]

[Footnote 5180: Lacretelle, "Dix ans d'Epreuves," p. 310.]

[Footnote 5181: "Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," 143. (March 20,
1799.) "The next day the primary assemblies began; very few attended
them; nobody seemed disposed to go out of his way to elect men whom they
did not like."--Dufort de Cheverney, "Memoires," March, 1799. "Persons
who are not dupes t