Eulogy of the revolutionary government by Barere and decree of the
police "unanimously adopted amidst the loudest applause."]

[Footnote 3229: Moniteur, XXI., 329.]

[Footnote 3230: Lafayette, "Memoires," IV., 330. "At last came the 9th
of Thermidor. It was not due to people of common sense. Their terror was
so great that an estimable deputy, to whom one of his colleagues put
the question, no witness being present, 'how long must we endure this
tyranny?' was upset by it to such a degree as to denounce him."]

[Footnote 3231: Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du Lundi," V., 209. (Sieyes'
unpublished papers.)--Moniteur, XVIII., 631, containing an example
of both the terror and style of the most eminent men, among others of
Fourcroy the celebrated chemist, then deputy, and later, Counselor of
State and Minister of Public Instruction. He is accused in the Jacobin
Club, Brumaire 18, year II., of not addressing the Convention often
enough, to which he replies: "After twenty years' devotion to the
practice of medicine I have succeeded in supporting my sans-culotte
father and my sans-culottes sisters.... As to the charge made by a
member that I have given most of my time to science. ... I have attended
the Lycee des Arts but three times, and then only for the purpose of
sans-culotteising it."]

[Footnote 3232: Michelet, (1798-1874), "Histoire de la Revolution," V.,
preface XXX (3rd ed.). "When I was young and looking for a job, I was
referred to an esteemed Review, to a well-known philanthropist, devoted
to education, to the people, and to the welfare of humanity. I found a
very small man of a melancholic, mild and tame aspect. We were in front
of the fire, on which he fixed his eyes without looking at me. He talked
a long time, in a didactic, monotonous tone of voice. I felt ill at ease
and sick at heart, and got away as soon as I could. It was this little
man, I afterwards learned, who hunted down the Girondists, and had them
guillotined, and which he accomplished at the age of twenty."--This
man's name was Julien de la Drome. I (Taine) saw him once when quite
young. He is well known; first, through his correspondence, and next, by
his mother's diary. ("Journal d'une bourgeoise pendant la Revolution,"
ed. Locroy.)--We have a sketch of David ("La Demagogie a Paris en 1793,"
by Dauban, a fac-simile at the beginning of the volume), representing
Queen Marie Antoinette led to execution. Madame Julien was at a window
along with David lo