ied.]

[Footnote 3176: Garat, 305, 310, 313. "His friends almost worshipped
him."]

[Footnote 3177: Ibid., 317.--Thibeaudeau, "Memoires," I., 59.]

[Footnote 3178: Quinet, "La Revolution," II., 304. (According to the
unpublished memoirs of Baudot.) These expressions by Danton's friends
all bear the mark of Danton himself. At all events they express exactly
his ideas.]

[Footnote 3179: Riouffe, 67.]

[Footnote 3180: Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I., 40, 42.--Michelet,
"Histoire de la Revolution Francaise," VI., 34; V. 178, 184. (On the
second marriage of Danton in June, 1793, to a young girl of sixteen. On
his journey to Arcis, March, 1794.)--Riouffe, 68. In prison "He talked
constantly about trees, the country and nature."]

[Footnote 3181: We can trace the effect of his attitude on the public in
the police reports, especially at the end of 1793, and beginning of the
year 1794. (Archives Nationales, F 7, 31167 report of Charmont, Nivose
6, year II.) "Robespierre gains singularly in public estimation,
especially since his speech in the Convention, calling on his colleagues
to rally and crush out the monsters in the interior, also in which he
calls on all to support the new revolutionary government with their
intelligence and talents.... I have to state that I have everywhere
heard his name mentioned with admiration. They wound up by saying that
it would be well for all members of the Convention to adopt the measures
presented by Robespierre."--(Report of Robin, Nivose 8.) "Citizen
Robespierre is honored everywhere, in all groupes and in the cafe's. At
the Cafe Manouri it was given out that his views of the government were
the only ones which, like the magnet, would attract all citizens to the
Revolution. It is not the same with citizen Billaud-Varennes." (Report
of the Purveyor, Nivose 9.) "In certain clubs and groups there is a
rumor that Robespierre is to be appointed dictator..... The people do
justice to his austere virtues; it is noticed that he has never changed
his opinions since the Revolution began."]

[Footnote 3182: "Souvenirs d'un deporte." by P. Villiers, (Robespierre's
secretary for seven months in 1790,) p. 2. "Of painstaking
cleanliness."--Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 94. Description of Robespierre,
published in the newspapers after his death: "His clothes were
exquisitely clean and his hair always carefully brushed."]

[Footnote 3183: D'Hericault, "La Revolution du 9 Thermidor," (as stated
by Daunou).