es, AF.,II., 37, to Fromcastel on
mission in Indre-et-Loire, Floreal 13, year II. "The Committee sends
you a letter from the people's club of Chinon, demanding the purging and
organization of all the constituted authorities of this district. The
committee requests you to proceed at once to carry out this important
measure."]

[Footnote 3291: Words of Robespierre, session of the convention
September 24, 1793.--On another representative, Merlin de Thionville,
who likewise stood fire, Robespierre wrote as follows: "Merlin de
Thionville, famous for surrendering Mayence, and more than suspected of
having received his reward."]

[Footnote 3292: Guillon, II., 207.--"Fouche," by M. de Martel, 292.]

[Footnote 3293: Hamel, III., 395, and following pages.--Buchez et Roux,
XXX., 435. (Session of the Jacobin club, Nivose 12, year II. Speech of
Collot d'Herbois.) "To-day I no longer recognize public opinion; had I
reached Paris three days later, I should probably have been indicted."]

[Footnote 3294: Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d'Auvergne," 438.
(Unpublished memoir of Maignet.)]

[Footnote 3295: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 165, 191. (Evidence of witnesses
on the trial of Carrier.)--Paris, II., 113, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon."
"The prisons," says Le Bon, "overflowed at Saint-Pol. I was there and
released two hundred persons. Well, in spite of my orders, several were
put back by the committee of Surveillance, authorised by Lebas, a friend
of Darthe. What could I do against Darthe supported by Saint-Just and
Lebas? He would have denounced me."--Ibid., 128, apropos of a certain
Lefevre, "veteran of the Revolution," arrested and brought before the
revolutionary tribunal by order of Lebon. "It was necessary to take the
choice of condemning him, or of being denounced and persecuted myself,
without saving him."--Beaulieu, "Essai," V., 233. "I am afraid and I
cause fear was the principle of all the revolutionary atrocities."]

[Footnote 3296: Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile
du Clerge," IV., 136. (Orders of Pinet and Cavaignac, Pluviose 22, and
Ventose 2.)--Moniteur, XXIV., 469. (Session of Prairial 30, year III.,
denunciation of representative Laplanche at the bar of the house, by
Boismartin.) On the 24th of Brumaire, year II., Laplanche and General
Seepher installed themselves at St. Lo in the house of an old man of
seventy, a M. Lemonnier then under arrest. "Scarcely had they entered
the house when they dema