nd: "Memoires," I., 23.]

[Footnote 3216: Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. This set of papers
contains five hundred and thirty-seven police reports, especially those
of Nivose, year II. The following is a sample Report of Nivose 25, year
II. "Being on a deputation to the convention, some colleagues took me to
dine in the old Breteuil gardens, in a large room with a nice floor....
The bill-of-fare was called for, and I found that after having eaten a
ritz soup, some meat, a bottle of wine and two potatoes, I had spent, as
they told me, eight francs twelve sous, because I am not rich. 'Foutre!'
I say to them how much do the rich pay here?... It is well to state that
I saw some deputies come into this large hall, also former marquises,
counts and knights of the poniard of the ancient regime... but I confess
that I cannot remember the true names of these former nobles.... for
the devil himself could not recognize those bastards, disguised like
sans-culottes."]

[Footnote 3217: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 237, 308. (July 5 and 14,
1793.)--Moniteur, XIX., 716. (Ventose 26, year II.) Danton secures the
passage of a decree "that nothing but prose shall be heard at the bar."
Nevertheless, after his execution, this sort of parade begins again.
On the 12th of Messidor, "a citizen admitted to the bar reads a poem
composed by him in honor of the success of our arms on the Sambre."
(Moniteur, XVI., 101.)]

[Footnote 3218: Moniteur, XVIII. 369, 397, 399, 420, 455, 469, 471, 479,
488, 492, 500, etc.--Mercier, "Le Nouveau Paris," II., 96.--Dauban,
"La Demagogie en 1793," 500, 505. (Articles by Prudhomme and Diurnal by
Beaulieu.)]

[Footnote 3219: Moniteur, XVIII., 420, 399.--"Ah, le bel oiseau," was
a song chosen for its symbolic and double meaning, one pastoral and the
other licentious.]

[Footnote 3220: De Goncourt, "La Societe francaise pendant la
Revolution," 418. (Article from" Pere Duchesne ".)--Dauban, ibid., 506.
(Article by Prud'homme.) "Liberty on a seat of verdure, receives the
homage of republicans, male and female,... and then.... she turns and
bestows a benevolent regard on her friends."]

[Footnote 3221: Moniteur, XVIII., 399. Session of Brumaire 20, on motion
of Thuriot: "I move that the convention attends the temple of Reason to
sing the hymn to Liberty."--"The motion of Thuriot is decreed."]

[Footnote 3222: Mercier, ibid., 99. (Similar scenes in the churches of
St. Eustache and St. Gervais.)]

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