t Roux, XXXIII., 101 (May 26, 1794.) Report by Barere and decree of
the convention ordering that "No English prisoners should be taken."
Robespierre afterwards speaks in the same sense. Ibid., 458. After the
capture of Newport, where they took five thousand English prisoners, the
French soldiers were unwilling to execute the convention's decree, on
which Robespierre (speech of Thermidor 8) said: "I warn you that your
decree against the English has constantly been violated; England, so
ill-treated in our speeches, is spared by our arms."]

[Footnote 31141: On the Girondists, Cf. "The Revolution," II., 216.]

[Footnote 31142: Buchez et Roux, XXX., 157. Sketch of a speech on
the Fabre d'Eglantine factim.--Ibid., 336, Speech at the Jacobin Club
against Clootz.--XXXII., abstract of a report on the Chabot affair,
18.-Ibid., 69, Speech on maintaining Danton's arrest.]

[Footnote 31143: Ibid., XXX., 378. (Dec.10, 1793.) With respect to the
women who crowd the Convention in order to secure the liberty of their
husbands: "Should the republican women forget their virtues as citizens
whenever they remembering that they are wives?"]

[Footnote 31144: Hamel, III., 196.--Michelet, V., 394, abstract of the
judicial debates on the disposition of the Girondists: "The minutes of
this decree are found in Robespierre's handwriting."]

[Footnote 31145: De Martel, "Types revolutionnaires," 44. The
instructions sent to the Revolutionary Tribunal at Orange are in
Robespierre's handwriting.--(Archives Nationales, F7 4439.)]

[Footnote 31146: Merlin de Thionville.]

[Footnote 31147: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 71. (On Danton.) "Before the
day is over we shall see whether the convention will shatter an idol
a long time rotten.... In what respect is Danton superior to his
fellow-citizens?.... I say that the man who now hesitates is guilty.....
The debate, just begun, is a danger to the country."--Also the speech in
full, against Clootz.]

[Footnote 31148: Ibid., XXX., 338. "Alas, suffering patriots, what can
we do, surrounded by enemies fighting in our own ranks!... Let us watch,
for the fall of our country is not far off," etc.--These cantatas, with
the accompaniments of the celestial harp, are terrible if we consider
the circumstances. For instance, on the 3rd of September, 1792, in the
electoral assembly while the massacres are going on: "M. Robespierre
climbs up on the tribune and declares that he will calmly face the
steel of the enemies o