depositions by Benaben and Scotty.]

[Footnote 32108: Dauban, "La Demagogie en 1793," p.369. (Extracts from
the unpublished memoirs of Mercier de Rocher.)--Ibid., 370. "Bourdon de
l'Oise had lived with Tuncq at Chantonney, where they kept busy
emptying bottles of fine wine. Bourdon is an excellent patriot, a man
of sensibility, but, in his fits of intoxication, he gives himself up to
impracticable views. "Let those rascally administrators," he says,
"be arrested!" Then, going to the window,--he heard a runaway horse
galloping in the street--"That's another anti-revolutionary! Let 'em
all be arrested!"--Cf. "Souvenirs," by General Pelleport, p.21. At
Perpignan, he attended the fete of Reason. "The General in command of
the post made an impudent speech, even to the most repulsive cynicisim.
Some prostitutes, well known to this wretch, filled one of the tribunes;
they waved their handkerchiefs and shouted "Vive la Raison!" After
listening to similar harangues by representatives Soubrang and Michaud,
Pelleport, although half cured (of his wound) returns to camp: "I could
not breathe freely in town, and did not think that I was safe until
facing the enemy along with my comrades."]

[Footnote 32109: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.332;
correspondence of secret agents, October, 1793. "Citizen Cusset,
representative of the people, shows no dignity in his mission; he drinks
like a Lapithe, and when intoxicated commits the arbitrary acts of
a vizier." For the style and orthography of Cusset, see one of his
letters. (Dauban, "Paris en 1794," p 14.)--Berryat St. Prix, "La Justice
Revolutionnaire," (2nd ed.) 339.]

[Footnote 32110: Ibid., 371. (According to "Pieces et Documents"
published by M. Fajon.)--Moniteur, XXIV., 453. (Session of Floreal 24,
year III.) Address of the commune of Saint-Jean du Gard.--XXI., 528.
(Session of Fructidor 2, year III.) Address of the Popular club of
Nimes.]

[Footnote 32111: Moniteur, XXIV., 602. (Session of Prairial 13, year
III.) Report of Durand Meillan: "This denunciation is only too well
supported by documents. It is for the convention to say whether it will
hear them read. I have to state beforehand that it can hear nothing more
repulsive nor better authenticated."--De Martel, "Fouche, 246. (Report
of the constituted authorities of la Nievre on the missions of Collot
d'Herbois, Laplanche, Fouche and Pointe, Prairial 19, year III.)
Laplanche, a former Benedictine, is the most foul-mout