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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