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[36] Carnot, "M?moires," I., 107.
[37] Ibid., I., 450, 523, 527, "we often ate only a morsel of dry
bread on the Committee's table."
[38] Moniteur, XXI., 362. (Speech by Cambon, Session of Thermidor 11,
year II.)
[39] Beugnot, "M?moires," II., 15. (Stated by Jean Bon himself in a
conversation at Mayence in 1813.)
[40] Gaudia, duc de Ga?te, "M?moires," I., 16, 28. "I owed my life to
Cambon personally, while, through his firmness, he preserved the whole
Treasury department, continually attacked by the all-powerful Jacobin
club." - On the 8th of Thermidor, Robespierre was "very severe on the
administration of the Treasury, which he accused of an aristocratic
and anti-revolutionary spirit.... Under this pretext, it was known
that the orator meant to propose an act of accusation against the
representative charged with its surveillance, as well as against the
six commissioners, and bring them before the Revolutionary Tribunal,
whose verdict could not be doubtful." - Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 431,
436, 441. Speech by Robespierre, Thermidor 8, year II. . . ".
Machiavellian designs against the small fund-holders of the State. .
. . A contemptible financial system, wasteful, irritating,
devouring, absolutely independent of your supreme oversight.
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