, since the 2nd of June, is a new plot hatched by Barbaroux."]

[Footnote 3203: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 44. Election of Collot
d'Herbois as president by one hundred and fifty-one out of two hundred
and forty-one votes, June 13, 1793.-Moniteur, XVII., 366. Election of
Herault-Sechelles as president by one hundred and sixty-five out of two
hundred and thirty-six votes, Aug. 3, 1793.]

[Footnote 3204: "The Revolution," vol. III., ch. I.--Mortimer-Ternaux,
VII., 435. (The three substitutes obtain, the first, nine votes, the
second, six votes, and the third, five votes.)]

[Footnote 3205: Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d' Auvergne," 206.]

[Footnote 3206: Le Marais or the Swamp (moderate party in the French
Revolution). SR.]

[Footnote 3207: Dussault: "Fragment pour servir a' l'histoire de la
convention."]

[Footnote 3208: Sainte-Beuve "causeries du Lundi," V., 216. (According
to the unpublished papers of Sieyes.)]

[Footnote 3209: Words of Michelet.]

[Footnote 3210: Moniteur, XX., 95, 135. (Sessions of Germinal II. in the
Convention and at the Jacobin club.)]

[Footnote 3211: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 17. (Sessions of Ventose 26,
year II. Speech of Robespierre.) "In what country has a powerful senate
ever sought in its own bosom for the betrayers of the common cause and
handed them over to the sword of the law? Who has ever furnished the
world with this spectacle? You, my fellow citizens."]

[Footnote 3212: Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I. 44. Danton, at table in
the ministry of Foreign Affairs, remarked: "The Revolution, like Saturn,
eats its own children." As to Camille Desmoulins, "His melancholy
already indicated a presentiment of his fate; the few words he allowed
to escape him always turned on questions and observations concerning the
nature of punishment, inflicted on those condemned by the revolutionary
Tribunal and the best way of preparing oneself for that event and
enduring it."]

[Footnote 3213: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 363.357. (Police reports on the
deputies, Messidor 4, and following days.)--Vilate: "coups secretes
de la Revolution du 9 et 10 Thermidor," a list designated by
Barere.--Denunciation by Lecointre. (2nd ed. p.13.)]

[Footnote 3214: Thibaudeau, I., 47. "Just as in ordinary times one tries
to elevate oneself, so does one strive in these times of calamity
to lower oneself and be forgotten, or atone for one's inferiority by
seeking to degrade oneself."]

[Footnote 3215: Madame Rola