t it could not stifle
my discoveries tried to make it appear that they had emanated from its
body." Three academic bodies came in turn the same day to see if he
would not present himself as a candidate.--"Up to the present time
several crowned heads have sought me and always on account of the fame
of my works."]

[Footnote 3117: "Journal de la Republique Francaise," July 6 1793.]

[Footnote 3118: Moniteur, (Session of the Convention, Sep.25, 1792).
Marat, indeed, is constantly claiming the post of temporary dictator.
("L'Ami du peuple," Nos. 258, 268, 466, 668 and "Appel a la nation,"
p.53).]

[Footnote 3119: Moniteur, (Session of the Convention, Sep.25, 1792).
Marat, indeed, is constantly claiming the post of temporary dictator.
("L'Ami du peuple," Nos. 258, 268, 466, 668 and "Appel a la nation,"
p.53).]

[Footnote 3120: Moniteur, (Session of the Convention, Sep.25, 1792).
Marat, indeed, is constantly claiming the post of temporary dictator.
("L'Ami du peuple," Nos. 258, 268, 466, 668 and "Appel a la nation,"
p.53).]

[Footnote 3121: Chevremont, I., 40. (Marat's letters, 1793).]

[Footnote 3122: Journal de la Republique Francaise, No.98.]

[Footnote 3123: The words of Marat and Panes. (Chevremont, I., 197, 203;
also "The Revolution" II., 290, 2nd note).]

[Footnote 3124: Michelet, "Histoire de la Revolution," II., 89.
(Narrated by M. Bourdier, Marat's physician, to M. Serre, the
physiologist). Barbaroux, "Memoires," 355, (after a visit to Marat):
"You should see how superficially Marat composed his articles. Without
any knowledge of a public man he would ask the first person he met what
he thought of him and this he wrote down, exclaiming 'I'll crush the
rascal!'"]

[Footnote 3125: Chevremont, I., 361. (From a pamphlet against Necker, by
Marat, July, 1790).]

[Footnote 3126: "L'Ami du Peuple," No.552. (August 30, 1791).]

[Footnote 3127: Ibid., No.626. (Dec. 15, 1791). Cf. "The Revolution,"
II., 129, on the number of armed emigres. At this date the authorized
number as published is four thousand.]

[Footnote 3128: His filthy imputations cannot be quoted. See in Buchez
et Roux, IX., 419 (April 26, 1791), and X., 220 (Nos. for June 17, 19
and 21), his statement against Lafayette; again, his list with its vile
qualifications of "rascals and rogues," who are canvassing for election,
and his letters on the Academicians.]

[Footnote 3129: Buchez et Roux, X., 407 (Sept., 1791).--Cf. ibid., 473.
According to