Add to these the reports of commissions charged with examining into
the conduct of old dictators, Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varennes,
Bar?re, Amar, Vouland, Vadier and David, the reports of the
representatives charged with investigating certain details of the
abolished system, that of Gr?goire on revolutionary vandalism, that of
Cambon on revolutionary taxes, that of Courtois on Robespierre's
papers. - All these rays combine in a terrible illumination which
imposes itself even on the eyes that turn away from it: It is now but
too plain that France, for fourteen months, has been devastated by a
gang of bandits. All that can be said in favor of the least perverted
and the least vile is that they were born so, or had become crazy.[6]
- The majority of the Convention cannot evade this growing testimony
and the Montagnards excite its horror; and all the more, because it
bears them a grudge: the 73 who were imprisoned and the sixteen who
were proscribed have resumed their seats, the 400 silent who have for
so long held their seats under the knife, remember the oppression to
which they have been subject. They now recover and turn first against
the most tainted scoundrels, and then against the members of the old
committees.
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