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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

" - Moniteur,
XXX., 653. "Plan of the f?te in honor of the Supreme Being, drawn up
by David, and decreed by the National Convention."
[164] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 176. (Narrative by Valate.)
[165] Hamel, III., 541.
[166] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 178, 180.
[167] Ibid., 177 (Narrative by Vilate.) Ibid., 170, Notes by
Robespierre on Bourdon (de l'Oise) 417. Passages erased by
Robespierre in the manuscript of his speech of Thermidor 8. - 249.
Analogous passages in his speech as delivered, - all these indications
enable us to trace the depths of his resentment.
[168] Ibid., 183. Memoirs of Billaud-Varennes, Collot d'Herbois,
Vadier and Bar?re. "The next day after Prairial 22, at the morning
session (of the committee of Public Safety) . . . . I now see,
says Robespierre, that I stand alone, with nobody to support me, and,
getting violently excited, he launched out against the members of the
committee who had conspired against him. He shouted so loud as to
collect together a number of citizens on the Tuileries terrace."
Finally, "he pushed hypocrisy so far as to shed tears." The nervous
machine, I imagine, broke down. - Another member of the committee,
Prieur, (Carnot, "M?moires," II.


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