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[28] Moniteur, XX., 698, 715, 716, 719. (Prairial 22 and 24.) After
the speeches of Robespierre and Couthon "Loud and renewed applause;
the plaudits begin over again and are prolonged." Couthon, having
declared that the Committee of Public Safety was ready to resign, "on
all sides there were cries of No, No."- Ibid., XXI., 268. (Thermidor
2.) Eulogy of the revolutionary government by Bar?re and decree of the
police "unanimously adopted amidst the loudest applause."
[29] Moniteur, XXI., 329.
[30] Lafayette, "M?moires," IV., 330. "At last came the 9th of
Thermidor. It was not due to people of common sense. Their terror
was so great that an estimable deputy, to whom one of his colleagues
put the question, no witness being present, 'how long must we endure
this tyranny?' was upset by it to such a degree as to denounce him."
[31] Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du Lundi," V., 209. (Si?y?s'
unpublished papers.)- Moniteur, XVIII., 631, containing an example of
both the terror and style of the most eminent men, among others of
Fourcroy the celebrated chemist, then deputy, and later, Counselor of
State and Minister of Public Instruction. He is accused in the
Jacobin Club, Brumaire 18, year II.
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