returning
to the National Convention arm-in-arm with Barere. Fouquier adds,
that they were treated as aristocrats and anti-revolutionaries, and
threatened with death if they refused to remain on their posts."
Analogous declarations by Pigeot, Ganne, Girard, Dupley, Foucault,
Nollin and Madre. "Sellier adds, that the tribunal having remonstrated
against the law of Prairial 22, he was threatened with arrest by Dumas.
Had we resigned, he says, Dumas would have guillotined us.]

[Footnote 11124: Moniteur, XXIV., 12. (Session of Ventose 29, year III.,
speech by Baileul). "Terror subdued all minds, suppressed all emotions;
it was the force of the government, while such was this government that
the numerous inhabitants of a vast territory seemed to have lost the
qualities which distinguish man from a domestic animal. They seemed
even to have no life except what the government accorded to them. Human
personality no longer existed; each individual was simply a machine,
going, coming, thinking or not thinking as he was impelled or stimulated
by tyranny."]

[Footnote 11125: Decree of Frimaire 14, year II., Dec. 4, 1793.]

[Footnote 11126: Moniteur, XVII., 473, 474, 478. (Speech by
Billaud-Varennes). "The sword of Damocles must henceforth be brandished
over the entire surface." This expression of Billaud sums up the spirit
of every new institution.]

[Footnote 11127: Moniteur, XVIII., 275. (Session of Oct. 26. 1793,
speech by Barere.) "This is the most revolutionary step you can take."
(Applause.)]

[Footnote 11128: Ibid., 520. (Report of Barere and decree in
conformity). "The representatives sent on mission are required to
conform strictly to the acts of the Committee of Public Safety. Generals
and other agents of the executive power will, under no pretext, obey
any special order, that they may refuse to carry out the said
acts."--Moniteur, XVIII., 291. (Report by Barere, Oct. 29, 1793.) At
this date one hundred and forty representatives are on mission.]

[Footnote 11129: Archives Nationales, AF. II., 22. (Papers of the
'Committee of Public Safety. Note on the results of the revolutionary
government without either date or signature.) "The law of Frimaire 14
created two centers of influence from which action spread, in the sense
of the Committee, and which affected the authorities. These two pivots
of revolutionary rule outside the Committee were the representatives of
the people on missions and the national agents controlli