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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

" - On Fouch?, De
Martel, 252. - On Dumont, Mallet-Dupan, "Manuscript notes." (January,
1795.) On Rov?re, Michelet, VI., 256. - Carnot, II., 87. (According
to the Memoirs of the German Olsner, who was in Paris under the
Directory:) "The tone of Barras' Salon was that of a respectable
gambling house; the house of Reubell resembled the waiting-room of an
inn at which the mail-coach stops."
[145] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 391, and XXXIII., 9. (Extracts from the
Memoirs of S?nart.)
[146] Carnot, "M?moires," I. 416. Carnot, having shown to the
Committee of Public Safety, proofs of the depredations committed on
the army of the North, Saint-Just got angry and exclaimed: "It is only
an enemy of the Republic that would accuse his colleagues of
depredations, as if patriots hadn't a right to everything!"
[147] As to Caligula see Suetonius and Philo.- With respect to Hakem,
see "L'Expos? de la Religion des Druses," by M. de Sacy.
[148] Saint-Just, speaking in the Convention, says: "What constitutes
a republic is the utter destruction of whatever is opposed to it."
[149] Orders issued by Saint-Just and Lebas for the departments of
Pas-de-Calais, Nord, la Somme et l'Aisne.


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