- All the others
serve on the missions and several repeatedly, and for a long time.
[47] Moniteur, XXIV., 60. The words of Carnot, session of Germinal 2,
year III.- Ibid., XXII., 138, words of Collot, session of Vend?miaire
12, year III. "Billaud and myself have sent into the departments
three hundred thousand written documents, and have made at least ten
thousand minutes (of meetings) with our own hand."
[48] Dussault "Fragment pour servir ? l'histoire de la Convention."
[49] Thibaudeau, I., 49.
[50] Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un Sexagenaire," II., 78.
[51] "M?moires d'un Bourgeois de Paris," by Veron, II., 14. (July 7,
1815.)
[52] Cf. Thibaudeau, "M?moires," I., 46. "It seemed, then, that to
escape imprisonment, or the scaffold, there was no other way than to
put others in your place."
[53] Carnot, "M?moires." I., 508.
[54] Carnot, I., 527. (Words of Prieur de la C?te d'Or.)
[55] Carnot, ibid., 527. (The words of Prieur.)
[56] "La Nouvelle Minerve," I., 355, (Notes by Billaud-Varennes,
indited at St. Domingo and copied by Dr. Chervin.) "We came to a
decision only after being wearied out by the nightly meetings of our
Committee.
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