. . . It will not be long
before you will see that we make the guillotine a present. . . .
The Committee begs you to send him sacram sanctam guillotinam, and the
republican minister of his worship. . . Not an hour of the day
passes that new members do not come to us whom we desire to initiate
in its mysteries, (sic)."
[164] Thibaudeau, "Histoire du Terrorisme dans le d?partment de la
Vienne," 34, 48. - Berryat Saint-Prix, 239.
[165] Archives Nationales F.7, 4435. (Letter of Lebon, Flor?al 23,
year II.) - Paris, I. 241.
[166] Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 184, 200. (Depositions of Chaux,
Monneron and Villemain.)
[167] Register of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Nantes, copied by M.
Chevrier. (M. Chevrier has kindly sent me his manuscript copy.) -
Berryat Saint-Prix, 94. - Archives Nationales, F7. 4591. (Extract
from the acts of the Legislative Committee, session of Flor?al 3, year
III. Restitution of the confiscated property of Alexander Long to his
son.) Dartigoyte, at Auch, did what Carrier did at Nantes. "It
follows from the above abstract duly signed that on the 27th Germinal,
year II., between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, Alexandre
Long, Sr.
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