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[5] Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d' Auvergne," 206.
[6] Le Marais or the Swamp (moderate party in the French Revolution).
SR.
[7] Dussault: " Fragment pour servir a' l'histoire de la convention."
[8] Sainte-Beuve "causeries du Lundi," V., 216. (According to the
unpublished papers of Si?y?s.)
[9] Words of Michelet.
[10] Moniteur, XX., 95, 135. (Sessions of Germinal II. in the
Convention and at the Jacobin club.)
[11] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 17. (Sessions of Vent?se 26, year II.
Speech of Robespierre.) "In what country has a powerful senate ever
sought in its own bosom for the betrayers of the common cause and
handed them over to the sword of the law? Who has ever furnished the
world with this spectacle? You, my fellow citizens."
[12] Miot de Melito, "M?moires," I. 44. Danton, at table in the
ministry of Foreign Affairs, remarked: "The R?volution, like Saturn,
eats its own children." As to Camille Desmoulins, "His melancholy
already indicated a presentiment of his fate; the few words he allowed
to escape him always turned on questions and observations concerning
the nature of punishment, inflicted on those condemned by the
revolutionary Tribunal and the best way of preparing oneself for that
event and enduring it.
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