(Saint-Beuve,
"Causeries du Lundi," V., 452.) - Moniteur. XXII, 86 (Report of
Gr?goire, 14 Fructidor, year II): "Dumas said that all clever men (les
hommes d'esprit) should be sent to the guillotine. . . Henriot
proposed to burn the National Library. . . . and his proposal is
repeated in Marseille. . . The systematic persecution of talented
persons was organized. . . . " Shouts had been heard in the
sections: "Beware of that man as he as written a book."
[147] "Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse" by Pescayre, prisoner, year
III, p. 317 ( Messidor 22nd, year II). Pinson, secretary of the
reception, indoctrinated as follows the old duke de Lesparre:
"Citoyen, your detention is used by your country as a means of
conversion. Eight of your immediate family have, because they did not
take advantage of his opportunity, carried their heads to the
scaffold. What have you done to avoid the sword of justice? Speak!
What are your feelings? Let us hear your principles. Have you at last
renounced the arrogance of the ancient regime? Do you believe in
equality established by nature and ordained by the Convention? Who are
the sans-culottes you associate with? Is your cell not a meeting place
for the aristocrats? .
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