. . but I confess that I cannot
remember the true names of these former nobles . . . . for the
devil himself could not recognize those bastards, disguised like sans-
culottes."
[17] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 237, 308. (July 5 and 14, 1793.) -
Moniteur, XIX., 716. (Vent?se 26, year II.) Danton secures the
passage of a decree "that nothing but prose shall be heard at the
bar." Nevertheless, after his execution, this sort of parade begins
again. On the 12th of Messidor, "a citizen admitted to the bar reads
a poem composed by him in honor of the success of our arms on the
Sambre." (Moniteur, XVI., 101.)
[18] Moniteur, XVIII. 369, 397, 399, 420, 455, 469, 471, 479, 488,
492, 500, etc. - Mercier, "Le Nouveau Paris," II., 96. - Dauban, "La
Demagogie en 1793," 500, 505. (Articles by Prudhomme and Diurnal by
Beaulieu.)
[19] Moniteur, XVIII., 420, 399. - "Ah, le bel oiseau," was a song
chosen for its symbolic and double meaning, one pastoral and the other
licentious.
[20] De Goncourt, "La Societ? fran?aise pendant la R?volution," 418.
(Article from" P?re Duchesne ".) - Dauban, ibid., 506. (Article by
Prud'homme.) "Liberty on a seat of verdure, receives the homage of
republicans, male and female, .
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