: Ibid., 183. Memoirs of Billaud-Varennes, Collot
d'Herbois, Vadier and Barere. "The next day after Prairial 22, at the
morning session (of the committee of Public Safety).... I now see, says
Robespierre, that I stand alone, with nobody to support me, and, getting
violently excited, he launched out against the members of the committee
who had conspired against him. He shouted so loud as to collect together
a number of citizens on the Tuileries terrace." Finally, "he pushed
hypocrisy so far as to shed tears." The nervous machine, I imagine,
broke down.--Another member of the committee, Prieur, (Carnot,
"Memoires," II., 525), relates that, in the month of Floreal, after
another equally long and violent session, "Robespierre, exhausted,
became ill."]

[Footnote 31169: Carnot, "Memoires," II. 526. "As his bureau was in a
separate place, where none of us set foot, he could retire to it without
coming in contact with any of us, as in effect, he did. He even made a
pretence of passing through the committee rooms, after the session was
over, and he signed some papers; but he really neglected nothing, except
our common discussions. He held frequent conferences in his house with
the presidents of the revolutionary tribunals, over which his influence
was greater than ever."]

[Footnote 31170: Dauban, "Paris en 1794," 563.--Archives Nationales,
AF.II., 58. The signature of Robespierre, in his own handwriting, is
found affixed to many of the resolutions of the Committee of Public
Safety, passed Thermidor 5 and 7, and those of St. Just and Couthon
after this, up to Thermidor 3, 6 and 7. On the register of the minutes
of the Committee of Public Safety, Robespierre is always recorded as
present at all meetings between Messidor 1 and Thermidor 8, inclusive.]

[Footnote 31171: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4438. Report to the Committee
of Public Safety by Herman, Commissioner of the civil and Police
administrations and of the Courts, Messidor 3, year II. "The committee
charged with a general supervision of the prisons, and obliged to
recognize that all the rascals mostly concerned with liberticide plots
are.... still in the prisons, forming a band apart, and rendering
surveillance very troublesome; they are a constant source of disorder,
always getting up attempts to escape, being a daily assemblage of
persons devoting themselves wholly to imprecations against liberty and
its defenders.... It would be easy to point out in each prison, thos