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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

) - On the 9th of Niv?se, the committee designated fifty-eight
representatives to establish the revolutionary government in certain
places and fixing the limits of their jurisdictions. (Archives
Nationales, AF., II., 22.) Subsequently, several were recalled, and
replaced by others. - The letters and orders of the representatives
on mission are filed in the National Archives according to
departments, in two series, one of which comprises missions previous
to Thermidor 9, and the other missions after that date.
[80] Thibaudeau, "Histoire du Terrorisme dans le department de la
Vienne," p.4. "Paris, Brumaire 15, the sans-culotte Piorry,
representative of the people to the sans-culottes composing the
popular club of Poitiers."
[81] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 116. (Letter of Laplanche,
Orleans, September 10, 1793. - "Also proc?s-verbaux of the Orleans
sections, September 7.) "I organized them, after selecting them from
the popular club, into a revolutionary committee. They worked under
my own eye, their bureau being in an adjoining chamber. . . I
required sure, local information, which I could not have had without
collaborators of the country.


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