., 369,) a mass of
chemical and abstract rant.]

[Footnote 3274: Carnot, I., 527. (Narrated by Prieur.) "Often when
hurriedly eating a bit of dry bread at the Committee table, Barere with
a jest, brought a smile on our lips."]

[Footnote 3275: Veron, II., 14.-Arnault, II., 74.--Cf., passim,
"Memoires de Barere," and the essay on Barere by Macaulay.]

[Footnote 3276: Vilate, Barere Edition, 184, 186, 244. "Fickle, frank,
affectionate, fond of society, especially that of women, in quest of
luxuries and knowing how to spend money."--Carnot, II. 511. In Prieur's
eyes, Barere was simply "a good fellow."]

[Footnote 3277: Moniteur, XXI., 173. (Justification of Joseph Lebon
and "his somewhat harsh ways.") "The Revolution is to be spoken of
with respect, and revolutionary measures with due regard. Liberty is
a virgin, to raise whose veil is a crime."--And again: "The tree of
Liberty grows when watered with the blood of tyrants."]

[Footnote 3278: Moniteur, XX., 580, 582, 583, 587.--"Campagnes de la
Revolution Francaise dans les Pyrenees-Orientales," by Fervel, II., 36
and following pages.--General Dugommier, after the capture of Toulouse,
spared the English general O'Hara, taken prisoner in spite of the orders
of the Convention. and received the following letter from the committee
of Public Safety. "The Committee accepts your victory and your wound as
compensations." On the 24th of December, Dugommier, that he may not be
present at the Toulon massacres, asks to return to the convention and
is ordered off to the army of the eastern Pyrenees.--In 1797, there were
thirty thousand French prisoners in England.]

[Footnote 3279: Moniteur, XVIII., 291. (Speech by Barere, session of
Brumaire 8, year II.) At this rate, there are one hundred and forty
deputies on mission to the armies and in the departments.--Before the
institution of the Committee of Public Safety, (April 7, 1793) there
were one hundred and sixty representatives in the departments, sent
there to hasten the levy of two hundred thousand men. (Moniteur, XVII.,
99, speech by Cambon, July 11, 1793.) The Committee gradually recalled
most of these representatives and, on the 16th July, only sixty-three
were on mission.--(Ibid., XVII., 152, speech by Gossuin, July 16.)--On
the 9th of Nivose, the committee designated fifty-eight representatives
to establish the revolutionary government in certain places and fixing
the limits of their jurisdictions. (Archives Nationales, AF