"
[13] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 363.357. (Police reports on the
deputies, Messidor 4, and following days.) - Vilate: "coups secr?tes
de la Revolution du 9 et 10 Thermidor," a list designated by Bar?re.
- Denunciation by Lecointre. (2nd ed. p.13.)
[14] Thibaudeau, I., 47. "Just as in ordinary times one tries to
elevate oneself, so does one strive in these times of calamity to
lower oneself and be forgotten, or atone for one's inferiority by
seeking to degrade oneself."
[15] Madame Roland: "M?moires," I., 23.
[16] Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. This set of papers contains
five hundred and thirty-seven police reports, especially those of
Niv?se, year II. The following is a sample Report of Niv?se 25, year
II. "Being on a deputation to the convention, some colleagues took me
to dine in the old Breteuil gardens, in a large room with a nice
floor. . . . The bill-of-fare was called for, and I found that
after having eaten a ritz soup, some meat, a bottle of wine and two
potatoes, I had spent, as they told me, eight francs twelve sous,
because I am not rich. 'Foutre!' I say to them how much do the rich
pay here? . . . It is well to state that I saw some deputies come
into this large hall, also former marquises, counts and knights of the
poniard of the ancient regime .
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