nd Carnot with confirmatory details.--Lindet
says that he had signed twenty thousand papers.--Ibid., XXXIII., 591.
(Session of Ventose 12, year III. Speech by Barere.) "The labor of the
Committee was divided amongst the different members composing it, but
all, without distinction, signed each other's work. I, myself, knowing
nothing of military affairs, have perhaps, in this matter, given four
thousand signatures."--Ibid., XXIV., 74. (Session of Germinal 6, year
III.) Speech of Lavesseur, witness of an animated scene between Carnot
and Robespierre concerning two of Carnot's clerks, arrested by order
of Robespierre.--Carnot adds "I had myself signed this order of arrest
without knowing it."--Ibid., XXII., 116. (Session of Vendemiaire 8, year
II., speech by Carnot in narrating the arrest of General Huchet for
his cruelties in Vendee.) On appearing before the committee of Public
Safety, Robespierre defended him and he was sent back to the army
and promoted to a higher rank; I was obliged to sign in spite of my
opposition."]

[Footnote 3243: Carnot, "Memoires," I., 572. (Speech by Carnot, Germinal
2, year III.)]

[Footnote 3244: Senart, "Memoires," 145, 153. (Details on the members of
the two Committees.)]

[Footnote 3245: Reports by Billaud on the organization of the
revolutionary government, November 18, 1793 and on the theory of
democratic government, April 20, 1794.--Reports by Robespierre on the
political situation of the Republic, November 17, 1793; and on the
principles of revolutionary government, December 5, 1793.--Information
on the genius of revolutionary laws, signed principally by Robespierre
and Billaud, November 29, 1793.--Reports by Robespierre on the
principles of political morality which ought to govern the Convention,
February 5, 1794; and on the relationship between religious and moral
ideas and republican principles, May 7, 1794.]

[Footnote 3246: Billaud no longer goes on mission after he becomes one
of the Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre never went. Barere, who
is of daily service, is likewise retained at Paris.--All the others
serve on the missions and several repeatedly, and for a long time.]

[Footnote 3247: Moniteur, XXIV., 60. The words of Carnot, session of
Germinal 2, year III.--Ibid., XXII., 138, words of Collot, session
of Vendemiaire 12, year III. "Billaud and myself have sent into the
departments three hundred thousand written documents, and have made at
least ten thousand min