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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

, 165, 191. (Evidence of witnesses on the
trial of Carrier.) - Paris, II., 113, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon." "The
prisons," says Le Bon, "overflowed at Saint-Pol. I was there and
released two hundred persons. Well, in spite of my orders, several
were put back by the committee of Surveillance, authorised by Lebas, a
friend of Darth?. What could I do against Darth? supported by Saint-
Just and Lebas? He would have denounced me." - Ibid., 128, apropos of
a certain Lef?vre, "veteran of the Revolution," arrested and brought
before the revolutionary tribunal by order of Lebon. "It was
necessary to take the choice of condemning him, or of being denounced
and persecuted myself, without saving him." - Beaulieu, "Essai," V.,
233. "I am afraid and I cause fear was the principle of all the
revolutionary atrocities."
[96] Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile du Clerg?,
IV., 136. (Orders of Pin?t and Cavaignac, Pluvi?se 22, and Vent?se
2.) - Moniteur, XXIV., 469. (Session of Prairial 30, year III.,
denunciation of representative Laplanche at the bar of the house, by
Boismartin.) On the 24th of Brumaire, year II., Laplanche and General
Seepher installed themselves at St.


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