" - (Report
of Robin, Niv?se 8.) "Citizen Robespierre is honored everywhere, in
all groupes and in the cafe's. At the Caf? Manouri it was given out
that his views of the government were the only ones which, like the
magnet, would attract all citizens to the Revolution. It is not the
same with citizen Billaud-Varennes." (Report of the Purveyor, Niv?se
9.) " In certain clubs and groups there is a rumor that Robespierre is
to be appointed dictator.. . . . The people do justice to his
austere virtues; it is noticed that he has never changed his opinions
since the Revolution began."
[82] "Souvenirs d'un d?port?." by P. Villiers, (Robespierre's
secretary for seven months in 1790,) p. 2. "Of painstaking
cleanliness." - Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 94. Description of
Robespierre, published in the newspapers after his death: "His clothes
were exquisitely clean and his hair always carefully brushed."
[83] D'Hericault, "La Revolution du 9 Thermidor," (as stated by
Daunou). - Meillan, "M?moires," p.4. "His eloquence was nothing but
diffusive declamation without order or method, and especially with no
conclusions. Every time he spoke we were obliged to ask him what he
was driving at.
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