"These are my
sentiments, I am fraternally, Osselin, minister of worship at Saint-
Aubin." - P.S. "It was just as I was going to answer a call of nature
that I learned this afflicting news." (He keeps up this bombast until
words fail him, and finally, frightened to death, and his brain
exhausted, he gives this postscript to show that he was not an
accomplice.)
[33] A term denoting the substitution of ten instead of seven days as
a division of time in the calendar, and forced into use during the
Revolution.
[34] "Recuil de pieces authentiques servant ? l'histoire de la
revolution? Strasbourg," II., 299. (A district order.)
[35] Later, when Lenin and Stalin resurrected Jacobinism, they placed
the headquarters of any subversive movement outside the country where
it operated. (SR.)
[36] Thermidor refers to the a very important day and event during the
French Revolution: the day Robespierre fell: Thermidor 9, year II,
(July 27, 1794), Robespierre's fall, effective the 10, was prepared by
his adversaries, Tallien, Barras, Fouch? etc., essentially because
they feared for their lives. Robespierre and 21 of his followers were
executed on the evening of the 10th of Thermidor year II.
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