ing the winter in sheds on the left bank of the Rhine, near Mayence,
a useless proceeding and mere literary parade. "They would listen to no
reason; a fine army and well-mounted artillery were to perish with cold
and hunger, for no object whatever, in quarters that might have been
avoided." The details are heart-rending. Never was military heroism so
sacrificed to the folly of civilian commanders.]

[Footnote 32116: See Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," I., ch. I, for
biographical details and traits of character.]

[Footnote 32117: Ibid., I., 13.--His mother became crazy and was put in
an asylum. Her derangement, he says, was due to "her indignation at
his oath of allegiance (to the Republic) and at his appointment to the
curacy of Nouvelle-Vitasse."]

[Footnote 32118: Ibid., I., 123. Speech by Lebon in the church of
Beaurains.]

[Footnote 32119: Ibid., II., 71, 72.--Cf. 85. "Citizen Chamonart,
wine-dealer, standing at the entrance of his cellar, sees the
representative pass, looks at him and does not salute him. Lebon
steps up to him, arrests him, treats him as an agent of Pitt and
Cobourg."...."They search him, take his pocket-book and lead him off to
the Anglaises (a prison)."]

[Footnote 32120: Ibid., II., 84.]

[Footnote 32121: Moniteur, XXV., 201. (Session of Messidor 22, year
III.) "When in the tribune (of the Convention) prison conspiracies were
announced. ... my dreams were wholly of prison conspiracies."]

[Footnote 32122: Ibid., 211. (Explanations given by Lebon to the
Convention.)--Paris, II., 350, 351. (Verdict of the jury.)]

[Footnote 32123: Paris, II., 85.]

[Footnote 32124: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 181. (Depositions of Monneron,
a merchant.)]

[Footnote 32125: Ibid., 184. (Deposition of Chaux.)--Cf. 200.
(Depositions of Monneron and Villemain, merchants.)]

[Footnote 32126: Ibid., 204. (Deposition of Lamarie, administrator of
the department.)]

[Footnote 32127: Ibid., 173. (Deposition of Erard, a copyist.)--168.
(Deposition of Thomas, health officer.) "To all his questions, Carrier
replied in the grossest language."]

[Footnote 32128: Ibid., 203. (Deposition of Bonami, merchant.)]

[Footnote 32129: Ibid., 156. (Deposition of Vaujois, public prosecutor
to the military commission.)]

[Footnote 32130: Ibid., 169. (Deposition of Thomas.)--Berryat
Saint-Prix, pp. 34, 35..--Buchez et Roux, 118. "He received the members
of the popular club with blows, also the municipal officers with saber