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old, an old aristocrat, liking nobody, habitually living by herself."--"Warrant of the Marseilles committee, Germinal 28, year II., condemning one Cousineri for having continually strayed off as if to escape popular vengeance, to which he was liable on account of his conduct and for having detested the Revolution."--Camille Boursier, p.72, Floreal 15, year II., execution of "Gerard, guilty of having scorned to assist at the planting of a Liberty-pole, in the commune of Vouille, Sep., 1792, and inducing several municipal officers to join him in his insolent and liberticide contempt."] [Footnote 4129: Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionnaire de Paris," V., 145.] [Footnote 4130: Ibid., v., 109. (Deposition of Madame de Maille.)--V., 189. (Deposition of Lhullier.)--Cf. Campardon, in the same affairs.] [Footnote 4131: Campardon, II., 189, 190, 193, 197. (Depositions of Beaulieu, Duclos, Tirard, Ducray, etc.)] [Footnote 4132: Berryat Saint-Prix, 395. (Letter of Representative Moyse Bayle,)--Ibid., 216. (Words of Representative Lecarpentier at Saint-Malo.) "Why such delays? Of what use are these eternal examinations? What need is there of going so deep into this matter? The name, profession and the upshot, and the trial is over."--"He publicly stated to the informers: You don't know what facts you require to denounce the Moderates? Well, a gesture, one single gesture, suffices."] [Footnote 4133: Letter of Payan to Roman Formosa, judge at Orange: "In the commissions charged with punishing the conspirators, no formalities should exist; the conscience of the judge is there as a substitute for these... The commissions must serve as political courts; they must remember that all the men who have not been on the side of the Revolution are against it, since they have done nothing for the country... I say to all judges, in the name of the country, do not risk saving a guilty man."--Robespierre made the same declaration in the Jacobin Club. Frimaire 19, year II.: "We judge, in politics, with the suspicions of an enlightened patriotism."] [Footnote 4134: "Memoires de Freron" and on Freron, (collection Barriere et Berville,) p.364. Letter of Freron, Toulon, Nivose 16. "More than eight hundred Toulonese have already been shot."] [Footnote 4135: Lallier, p.90. (The eleven distinct drownings ascertained by M. Lallier extend up to Pluviose 12, year II.)] [Footnote 4136: Moniteur, XXII., 227. (Official documents read in t
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