Letter of M. Alquier to
the First Consul, Pluviose 18, year III.) "I wanted to see the central
administration; I found the ideas and language of 1793."]

[Footnote 5189: Dufort de Cheverney, "Memoires," (February 26, March
31 and September 6, 1797). "That poor theoristic imbecile, La
Revelliere-Lepaux, who, joining Barras and Reubell against Barthelemy
and Carnot, made the 18th of Fructidor, and shut himself in his room
so as not to witness it, himself avows the quality of his staff."
("Memoires," II., 164.) "The 18th of Fructidor necessitated numerous
changes on the part of the Directory. Instead of putting republicans,
but above all, honest, wise and enlightened men in the place of the
functionaries and employees dismissed or revoked, the selections
dictated by the new Councils fell for the most part on anarchists and
men of blood and robbery."]

[Footnote 5190: Lacretelle, "Dix ans d'epreuves," p.317. A few days
after Fructidor, Robert, an old Jacobin, exclaimed with great joy on
the road to Brie-Comte, "All the royalists are going to be driven out
or guillotined!" The series F.7 in the Archives Nationales, contains
hundreds of files filled with reports "on the state of the public mind,"
in each department, town or canton between the years III. and VIII. I
have given several months to their examination and, for lack of space,
cannot copy any extracts. The real history of the last five years of
the Revolution may be found in these files. Mallet-Dupan gives a correct
impression of it in his "Correspondance avec la cour de Vienne," also in
the "Mercure Britannique."]

[Footnote 5191: Sauzay, X., chaps. 8o and 90.--Ludovic Sciout, IV.,
ch. 17. (See especially in Sauzay, X., pp.170 and 281, the instructions
given by Duval, December 16, 1796, and the circulars of Francois de
Neufchateau from November 20, 1798, down to June 18, 1798, each of these
pieces being a masterpiece in its way.]

[Footnote 5192: "Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p.134. "June 7,
1798." "The day following the decade, the gardeners, who as usual came
to show themselves off on the main street, were fined six livres for
having treated with contempt and broken the decade." January 21, 1799.
"Those who were caught working on the decade, were fined three livres
for the first offence if they were caught more than once the fine was
doubled and it was even followed by imprisonment"]

[Footnote 5193: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 160. Examples of "individual
moti