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report by Pout; Messidor; year VI。)



'132' Schmidt; III。; 374。  (Reports on the situation of the department

of the Seine; Ventose; year VII。) … Dufort de Cheverney; 〃Mémoires;〃

October 22; 1799。  〃The column of militia sets out to…day; there are

no more than thirty persons in it; and these again are all paid or not

paid clerks; attachés of the Republic; all these belonging to the

department; to the director of domains; in fine; all the bureaus。〃



'133' Schmidt; III。; 374。  (Reports on the situation of the department

of the Seine; Ventose; year VII。) … Dufort de Cheverney; 〃Mémoires;〃

October 22; 1799。  〃The column of militia sets out to…day; there are

no more than thirty persons in it; and these again are all paid or not

paid clerks; attachés of the Republic; all these belonging to the

department; to the director of domains; in fine; all the bureaus。〃



'134' M。 de Lafayette; 〃Mémoires;〃 II。; 162。  (Letter of July 22;

1799。) 〃The other day; at the mass in St。  Roch; a man by the side of

our dear Grammont; said fervently: 〃My God; have mercy on us;

exterminate the nation !〃 This; indeed; simply meant: 〃My God; deliver

us from the Convention system!〃



'135' Schmidt;298; 352; 377; 451; etc。  (Ventose; Frimaire and

Fructidor; year VII。)



'136' Ibid。; III。  (Reports of Prairial; year III。; department of the

Seine。)



'137' M。 de Lafayette; 〃Memoires;〃 II。; 164。  (Letter of July 14;

1799。) … De Tocqueville; 〃(?uvres complètes;〃 V。; 270。  (Testinony of

a contemporary。) … Sauzay; X。; 470; 471。  (Speeches by Briot and de

Echassériaux): 〃I cannot understand the frightful state of torpor into

which minds have fallen; people have come to believing nothing; to

feeling nothing; to doing nothing 。  。  。  。  The great nation which

had overcome all and created everything around her; seems to exist

only in the armies and in a few generous souls。〃



'138' Lord Malmesbury's 〃Diary;〃 (November 5; 1796)。  〃At

Randonneau's; who published all the acts and laws 。  。  。  。  Very

talkative; but clever 。  。  。  。  Ten thousand laws published since

1789; but only seventy enforced。〃… Ludovic Sciout; IV。; 770。  (Reports

of year VII。) In Puy de Dome: 〃Out of two hundred and eighty…six

communes there are two hundred in which the agents have committed

every species of forgery on the registers of the Etat…Civil and in the

copying of its acts; to clear individuals of military service。  Here;

young men of twenty and twenty…five are married to women of seventy…

two and eighty years of age; and even to those who have long been

dead; then; an extract from the death register clears a man who is

alive and well。〃 … 〃 Forged contracts are presented to avoid military

service; young soldiers are married to women of eighty; one woman;

thanks to a series of forgeries; is found married to eight or ten

conscripts。〃 (Letter of an officer of the Gendarmerie to Roanne;

Ventose 9; year VIII。)



'139' Words of De Tocqueville。  … 〃Le Duc de Broglie;〃 by M。 Guizot;

p。  16。  (Words of the Duc de Broglie。) 〃Those who were not living at

this time could form no idea of the profound discouragement into which

France had fallen in the interval between Fructidor 18 and Brumaire

18。〃



'140' Buchez et Roux; XXXVIII。; 480。  (Message of the Directory;

Floréal 13; year IV。; and report of Bailleul; Floreal 18。) 〃When an

election of deputies presented a bad result to us we thought it our

duty to propose setting it aside。  。  。  。  It will be said that your

project is a veritable proscription。〃 … 〃Not more so than the 19 of

Fructidor。〃 … Cf。  for dismissals in the provinces; Sauzay; V。; ch。

86。  … Albert Babeau; II。; 486。  During the four years the Directory

lasted the municipal council of Troyes was renewed seven times; in

whole or in part。



'141' Buchez et Roux; XXXIX。; 61。  (Session of Prairial 30; year

VII。)…Sauzay; X。; ch。  87。  … Léouzon…Leduc; 〃Correspondence

Diplomatique avec la cour de Suede;〃 P。  203。  … (Letters of July 1; 7

11; 19 August 4; September 23; 1799。) 〃The purification of

functionaries; so much talked about now; has absolutely no other end

in view but the removal of the partisans of one faction in order to

substitute those of another faction without any regard to moral

character。  。  。  。  It is this choice of persons without probity;

justice or any principles of honesty whatever for the most important

offices which makes one tremble; and especially; at this moment; all

who are really attached to their country。〃 … 〃The opening of the clubs

must; in every relation; be deemed a disastrous circumstance。  。  。  。

All classes of society are panic…stricken at the faintest probability

of the re…establishment of a republican government copied after that

of 1793〃 。  。  。  。  The party of political incendiaries in France is

the only one which carries out such designs energetically and

directly。〃



'142' Leouzon…Leduc; ibid; 328; 329。  (Dispatches of September 19 and

23。) … Mallet…Dupan; 〃Mercure Britannique。〃 (No。  for October 25;

1799。  Letter from Paris。  September 15。  Exposition of the situation

and tableau of the parties。) 〃I will add that the war waged with

success by the Directory against the Jacobins; (for; although the

Directory is itself a Jacobin production; it wants no more of its

masters); that this war; I say; has rallied people somewhat to the

government without having converted anyone to the Revolution or really

frightened the Jacobins who will pay them back if they have time to do

it。〃



'143' Gohier; 〃Mémoires;〃 conversation with Sieyès on his entry into

the Directory。  〃Here we are;〃 says Sieyès to him; 〃members of a

government which; as we cannot conceal from ourselves; is threatened

with a coming fall。  But when the ice melts skilful pilots can escape

in the breaking up。  A falling government does not always imperil

those at the head of it。〃



'144' Tacitus; 〃Annales;〃 book VI。; § 50。   〃Macro; intrepidus;

opprimi senem injectu mu1t? vestis discedique a limine。〃



'145' Mallet…Dupan;〃 Mercure Britannique。〃 (Nos。  for December 25;

1798 and December 1799。) 〃From the very beginning of the Revolution;

there never was; in the uproar of patriotic protestations; amidst so

many popular effusions of devotion to the popular cause to Liberty in

the different parties; but one fundamental conception; that of

grasping power after having instituted it; of using every means of

strengthening themselves; and of excluding the largest number from it;

in order to center themselves in a privileged committee。  As soon as

they had hurried through the articles of their constitution and seized

the reins of government; the dominant party conjured the nation to

trust to it; notwithstanding that the farce of their reasoning would

not bring about obedience; 。  。  。  Power and money and money and

power; all projects for guaranteeing their own heads and disposing of

those of their competitors; end in that。  From the agitators of 1789

to the tyrants of 1798; from Mirabeau to Barras; each labors only to

forcibly open the gates of riches and authority and to close them

behind them。〃



'146' Mallet…Dupan; ibid。; No。  for April 10; 1799。  On the Jacobins。

〃The sources of their enmities; the prime motive of their fury; their

coup…d'état lay in their constant mistrust of each other 。  。  。  。

Systematic; immoral factionists; cruel through necessity and

treacherous through prudence; will always attribute perverse

intentions。  Carnot admits that there were not ten men in the

Convention that were conscious of probity。〃



'147' See in this respect 〃Histoire de ma Vie;〃 by George Sand;

volumes 2; 3 and 4; the correspondence of her father enlisted as a

volunteer in 1798 and a lieutenant at Marengo。  … Cf。  Marshal

Marmont; 〃Memoires;〃 I。; 186; 282; 296; 304。  〃Our ambition; at this

moment; was wholly secondary; we were occupied solely with our duties

or pleasures。  The most cordial and frankest union prevailed amongst

us all。〃



'148' 〃Journal de Marche du sergent Fracasse。〃 … 〃 Les Cahiers du

capitaine Coignet。〃 … Correspondence of Maurice Dupin in 〃Histoire de

ma Vie;〃 by George Sand。



'149' 〃Les Cahiers du Capitaine Coignet;〃 p。76。  〃And then we saw the

big gentlemen getting out of the windows。  Mantles; caps and feathers

lay on the floor and the grenadiers ripped off the lace。〃 … Ibid。; 78;

Narration by the grenadier Chome: 〃 The pigeons all flew out of the

window and we had the hall to ourselves。〃



'150' Dufort de Cheverney; 〃 Mémoires;〃 September 1; 1800。

〃Bonaparte; being fortunately placed at the head of the government;

advanced the Revolution more than fifty years; the cup of crimes was

full and overflowing。  He cut off the seven hundred and fifty heads of

the hydra; concentrated power in his own hands; and prevented the

primary assemblies from sending us another third of fresh scoundrels

in the place of those about to take themselves off。

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