" (Here follow the signatures
of the President and three secretaries.) - "Journal des D?bats et
Correspondence de la Soci?t? des Jacobins, No.543, 5th day of the 3rd
month of the year II. - In relation to the formation of a new Central
club, "Terrasson is of opinion that this club may become liberticide,
and demands a committee to examine into it and secure its extinction.
The committee demanded by Terrasson is appointed." - It is evident
that they hold on energetically to this monopoly. - Cf. Moniteur,
XIX., 637. (Vent?se 13.) Motion adopted in the Jacobin club, obliging
the ministers to turn out of office any individual excluded from the
club.
[34] Dauban, ibid., 307. (Report of Germinal 9.)
[35] Moniteur, XXII. 353. (Session of Brumaire 20, year III.
Reclamation made by M. B?langer at the bar of the Convention.)
[36] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 40. (Acts passed by the Committee
of Public Safety at the dates indicated.) Beaulieu, "Essais," v., 200.
(Ibid.) The registers of the Committee of Public Safety contain a
number of similar gratuities paid to provincial clubs and patriots,
for instance, AF., II. 58, (Brumaire 8), fifty thousand francs to
Laplanche, and, (Brumaire 9), fifty thousand francs to Couthon, "to
maintain public spirit in Calvados, to revive public spirit in Lyons,
to aid, as required, the less successful patriots who zealously devote
their time to the service of their country.
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