798, and report by Pout, Messidor, year VI.)]

[Footnote 51132: Schmidt, III., 374. (Reports on the situation of the
department of the Seine, Ventose, year VII.)--Dufort de Cheverney,
"Memoires," October 22, 1799. "The column of militia sets out to-day;
there are no more than thirty persons in it, and these again are all
paid or not paid clerks, attaches of the Republic, all these belonging
to the department, to the director of domains, in fine, all the
bureaus."]

[Footnote 51133: Schmidt, III., 374. (Reports on the situation of the
department of the Seine, Ventose, year VII.)--Dufort de Cheverney,
"Memoires," October 22, 1799. "The column of militia sets out to-day;
there are no more than thirty persons in it, and these again are all
paid or not paid clerks, attaches of the Republic, all these belonging
to the department, to the director of domains, in fine, all the
bureaus."]

[Footnote 51134: M. de Lafayette, "Memoires," II., 162. (Letter of July
22, 1799.) "The other day, at the mass in St. Roch, a man by the side
of our dear Grammont, said fervently: 'My God, have mercy on us,
exterminate the nation!' This, indeed, simply meant: 'My God, deliver us
from the Convention system!'"]

[Footnote 51135: Schmidt,298, 352, 377, 451, etc. (Ventose, Frimaire and
Fructidor, year VII.)]

[Footnote 51136: Ibid., III. (Reports of Prairial, year III., department
of the Seine.)]

[Footnote 51137: M. de Lafayette, "Memoires," II., 164. (Letter of July
14, 1799.)--De Tocqueville, "(oeuvres completes," V., 270. (Testinony
of a contemporary.)--Sauzay, X., 470, 471. (Speeches by Briot and de
Echasseriaux): "I cannot understand the frightful state of torpor into
which minds have fallen; people have come to believing nothing, to
feeling nothing, to doing nothing.... The great nation which had
overcome all and created everything around her, seems to exist only in
the armies and in a few generous souls."]

[Footnote 51138: Lord Malmesbury's "Diary," (November 5, 1796). "At
Randonneau's, who published all the acts and laws.... Very talkative,
but clever.... Ten thousand laws published since 1789, but only seventy
enforced."--Ludovic Sciout, IV., 770. (Reports of year VII.) In Puy de
Dome: "Out of two hundred and eighty-six communes there are two hundred
in which the agents have committed every species of forgery on the
registers of the Etat-Civil and in the copying of its acts, to
clear individuals of military service. Here, young