utes (of meetings) with our own hand."]

[Footnote 3248: Dussault "Fragment pour servir a l'histoire de la
Convention."]

[Footnote 3249: Thibaudeau, I., 49.]

[Footnote 3250: Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un Sexagenaire," II., 78.]

[Footnote 3251: "Memoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris," by Veron, II., 14.
(July 7, 1815.)]

[Footnote 3252: Cf. Thibaudeau, "Memoires," I., 46. "It seemed, then,
that to escape imprisonment, or the scaffold, there was no other way
than to put others in your place."]

[Footnote 3253: Carnot, "Memoires." I., 508.]

[Footnote 3254: Carnot, I., 527. (Words of Prieur de la Cote d'Or.)]

[Footnote 3255: Carnot, ibid., 527. (The words of Prieur.)]

[Footnote 3256: "La Nouvelle Minerve," I., 355, (Notes by
Billaud-Varennes, indited at St. Domingo and copied by Dr. Chervin.) "We
came to a decision only after being wearied out by the nightly meetings
of our Committee."]

[Footnote 3257: Decree of September 17, 1793, on "Suspects." Ordinance
of the Paris Commune, October 10, 1793, extending it so as to include
"those who, having done nothing against the Revolution, do nothing for
it."--Cf. "Papers seized in Robespierre's apartments," II., 370, letter
of Payan. "Every man who has not been for the Revolution has been
against it, for he has done nothing for the country.... In popular
commissions, individual humanity, the moderation which assumes the veil
of justice, is criminal."]

[Footnote 3258: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 394, and following pages; 414
and following pages, (on the successive members of the two Committees).]

[Footnote 3259: Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionaire," III.,
129-131. Herault de Sechelles, allied with Danton, and accused of
being indulgent, had just given guarantees, however, and applied the
revolutionary regime in Alsace with a severity worthy of Billaud.
(Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. V., 141.) "Instructions for
civil commissioners by Herault, representative of the people," (Colmar,
Frimaire 2, year II.,) with suggestions as to the categories of persons
that are to be "sought for, arrested and immediately put in jail,"
probably embracing nineteen-twentieths of the inhabitants.]

[Footnote 3260: Dauban, "Paris" en 1794, 285, and following pages.
(Police Reports, Germinal, year II.) Arrest of Hebert and associates
"Nothing was talked about the whole morning but the atrocious crimes of
the conspirators. They were regarded as a thousand times more criminal
tha