ommittee on the War,
signed by Barere and Billaud-Varennes, Pluviose 23,, year II.]

[Footnote 3287: Ibid., AF., II., 36. Letter of the Committee of Public
Safety to Le Carpentier, on mission in l'Orne, Brumaire 19, year II.
"The administrative bodies of Alencon, the district excepted, are wholly
gangrened; all are Feuillants, or infected with a no less pernicious
spirit.... For the choice of subjects, and the incarceration of
individuals, you can refer to the sans-culottes: the most nervous are
Symaroli and Preval.--At Montagne, the administration must be
wholly removed, as well as the collector of the district, and the
post-master;... purify the popular club, expel nobles and limbs of the
law, those that have been turned out of office, priests, muscadins,
etc.... Dissolve two companies, one the grenadiers and the other the
infantry who are very muscadin and too fond of processions.... Re-form
the staff and officers of the National Guard. To secure more prompt
and surer execution of these measures of security you may refer to the
present municipality, the Committee of Surveillance and the Cannoneers.]

[Footnote 3288: Ibid., AF.,II., 37. To Ricord, on mission at Marseilles,
Pluviose 7, year II, a strong and rude admonition: he is going soft, he
has gone to live with Saint-Meme, a suspect; he is too biased in favor
of the Marseilles people who, during the siege "made sacrifices to
procure subsistences;" he blamed their arrest, etc.--Floreal 13, year
II., to Bouret on mission in the Manche and at Calvados. "The Committee
are under the impression that you are constantly deceived by an
insidious secretary who, by the bad information he has given you, has
often led you to give favorable terms to the aristocracy, etc."--Ventose
6, year II., to Guimberteau, on mission near the army on the coasts
of Cherbourg: "The committee is astonished to find that the military
commission established by you, undoubtedly for striking off the heads of
conspirators, was the first to let them off. Are you not acquainted with
the men who compose it? For what have you chosen them? If you do not
know them, how does it happen that you have summoned them for such
duties?"--Ibid., and Ventose 23, order to Guimberteau to investigate the
conduct of his secretary]

[Footnote 3289: See especially in the "Archives des Affaires
etrangeres," vols. 324 to 334, the correspondence of secret agents sent
into the interior.]

[Footnote 3290: Archives National