. . .
Anti-revolution exists in the financial department. . . . Who are
its head administrators? Brissotins, Feuillants, aristocrats and well-
known knaves - the Cambons, the Mallarm?s, the Ramels!"
[41] Carnot, "M?moires," I., 425.
[42] Moniteur, XXIV., 47, 50. (Session of Germinal 2, year II.)
Speeches by Lindet and Carnot with confirmatory details. - Lindet
says that he had signed twenty thousand papers. - Ibid., XXXIII.,
591. (Session of Vent?se 12, year III. Speech by Bar?re.) "The labor
of the Committee was divided amongst the different members composing
it, but all, without distinction, signed each other's work. I,
myself, knowing nothing of military affairs, have perhaps, in this
matter, given four thousand signatures." - Ibid., XXIV., 74. (Session
of Germinal 6, year III.) Speech of Lavesseur, witness of an animated
scene between Carnot and Robespierre concerning two of Carnot's
clerks, arrested by order of Robespierre. - Carnot adds " I had
myself signed this order of arrest without knowing it." - Ibid.,
XXII., 116. (Session of Vend?miaire 8, year II., speech by Carnot in
narrating the arrest of General Huchet for his cruelties in Vend?e.
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