r de la Marne, sent
to Nantes to replace Carrier.) "Carrier, perhaps, has been badly
surrounded;.... his ways are harsh, the means he employs are not well
calculated to win respect for the national authority;... he is used up
in that city. He is to leave and go elsewhere."--(AF. II., 36, Nivose
21, letter to Fouche, Laporte, and Albitte, at Commune-affranchie,
signed by Billaud-Varennes and composed by him.) "The convention, Nivose
I, has approved of the orders and other measures taken by you. We can
add nothing to its approval. The Committee of Public Safety subjects all
operations to the same principles, that is to say, it conforms to yours
and acts with you."]

[Footnote 3235: Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux Lundis," VIII., 105.
(Unpublished report by Vice-admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, May 28, 1794.)]

[Footnote 3236: Carnot, "Memoires," I., 107.]

[Footnote 3237: Ibid., I., 450, 523, 527, "we often ate only a morsel of
dry bread on the Committee's table."]

[Footnote 3238: Moniteur, XXI., 362. (Speech by Cambon, Session of
Thermidor 11, year II.)]

[Footnote 3239: Beugnot, "Memoires," II., 15. (Stated by Jean Bon
himself in a conversation at Mayence in 1813.)]

[Footnote 3240: Gaudia, duc de Gaete, "Memoires," I., 16, 28. "I owed my
life to Cambon personally, while, through his firmness, he preserved
the whole Treasury department, continually attacked by the all-powerful
Jacobin club."--On the 8th of Thermidor, Robespierre was "very severe on
the administration of the Treasury, which he accused of an aristocratic
and anti-revolutionary spirit.... Under this pretext, it was known
that the orator meant to propose an act of accusation against the
representative charged with its surveillance, as well as against the six
commissioners, and bring them before the Revolutionary Tribunal, whose
verdict could not be doubtful."--Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 431, 436, 441.
Speech by Robespierre, Thermidor 8, year II... ". Machiavellian
designs against the small fund-holders of the State.. .. A contemptible
financial system, wasteful, irritating, devouring, absolutely
independent of your supreme oversight.... Anti-revolution exists in the
financial department.... Who are its head administrators? Brissotins,
Feuillants, aristocrats and well-known knaves--the Cambons, the
Mallarmes, the Ramels!"]

[Footnote 3241: Carnot, "Memoires," I., 425.]

[Footnote 3242: Moniteur, XXIV., 47, 50. (Session of Germinal 2, year
II.) Speeches by Lindet a