"- Meissner, "Voyage ? Paris," (at the end of 1795,)
p. 160. "The (revolutionary) army and the revolutionary committees
were really associations organized by crime for committing every
species of injustice, murder, rapine, and brigandage with impunity.
The government had deprived all men of any talent or integrity of
their places and given these to its creatures, that is to say, to the
dregs of humanity." - Baron Brinckmann, Charg? d'Affaires from Sweden.
(Letter of July 11, 1799.) "I do not believe that the different
classes of society in France are more corrupt than elsewhere; but I
trust that no people may ever be ruled by as imbecile and cruel
scoundrels as those that have ruled France since the advent of its new
state of freedom. . . The dregs of the people, stimulated from
above by sudden and violent excitement, have everywhere brought to the
surface the scum of immorality."
[3] Fleury, "Babeuf," 139, 150. - Granier de Cassagnac, "Histoire du
Directoire," II., 24-170. - (Trial of Babeuf, passim.) The above
quotations are from documents seized in Babeuf's house, also from
affidavits made by witnesses, and especially by captain Grizel.
[4] Moniteur, session of September 5, 1793.
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