[36] On arriving at Blois, he
organizes "a paid guard, composed of all the most abject Jacobins." -
Elsewhere, as here,[37] it is the full staff of the reign of Terror,
the petty potentates dethroned after Thermidor, the political
Bohemians restored to their functions.
IV. Public Opinon.
Resistance of public opinion. - Elections, year IV. at Paris and in
the provinces. - The Directory threatened by ultra Jacobins. -
Forced amelioration of the Jacobin administration.
So, that after Vend?miaire 13, it looks as if the Jacobin band had
made the conquest of France a second time. This, however not yet so,
for, if it has recovered its authority, it has not yet recovered the
dictatorship. - In vain do Barras and Tallien, Dubois-Cranc?, Merlin
de Douai and Marie Ch?nier, Delmas, Louvet, Si?y?s and their corrupt
gang, the habitu?s of power, the despotic, unscrupulous theorists, try
to postpone indefinitely the opening of the legislative bodies, to
annul the elections, to purge the Convention, to restore for their own
advantage that total concentration of powers which, under the title of
revolutionary government, has converted France into a pachalic[38] in
the hands of the old Committee of Public Safety.
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