oking at the funeral convoy, whilst he made the
drawing.--Madame Julien writes in her "Journal," September 3, 1792:
"To attain this end we must will the means. No barbarous humanity! The
people are aroused, the people are avenging the crimes of the past three
years."--Her son, a sort of raw, sentimental Puritan, fond of bloodshed,
was one of Robespierre's most active agents. He remembered what he had
done, as is evident by Michelet's narrative, and cast his eyes down,
well knowing that his present philanthropy could not annihilate past
acts.]

[Footnote 3233: Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. Register of the Acts
of the Committee of Public Safety, vol. II., orders of August 3, 1793.]

[Footnote 3234: On the concentration and accumulation of business, cf.
Archives Nationales, ibid., acts of Aug. 4, 5, 6, 1793; and AF. II., 23,
acts of Brumaire I and 15, year II.--On the distribution and dispatch of
business in the Committee and the hours devoted to it, see Acts of
April 6, June 13, 17, 18, Aug. 3, 1793, and Germinal 27, year II.--After
August 3, two sessions were held daily, from 8 o'clock in the morning to
1 o'clock in the afternoon, and from 7 to 10 o'clock in the evening;
at 10 o'clock, the Executive Council met with the Committee of Public
Safety, and papers were signed about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.--The
files of AF. II., 23 to 42, contain an account of the doings of the
Committee, the minutes of its meetings and of its correspondence. A
perusal of these furnishes full details concerning the initiative and
responsibility of the Committee. For example, (Nivose 4, year II.,
letters to Freron and Barras, at Marseilles,) "The Committee commend
the vigorous measures you have sanctioned in your orders at
Marseilles.--Marseilles, through you, affords a great example.
Accustomed, as you are, to wielding thunderbolts, you are best
calculated for still governing it... How glorious, citizen colleagues,
to be able like you, after long continued labors and immortal fame, how
gratifying, under such auspices, to return to the bosom of the National
Convention!"--(AF. II., 36, Pluviose 7, year II., letter to the
representatives on mission at Bordeaux, approving of the orders issued
by them against merchants.) "concealed behind the obscurity of
its complots, mercantilism cannot support the ardent, invigorating
atmosphere of Liberty; Sybaritic indolence quails before Spartan virtue.
"--(AF. II., 37, Pluviose 20, letter to Prieu