Bartholomew," with the
old Conventionists who could not get themselves elected, at their
head, - Drouet, Amar, Vadier, Ricord, Laignelot, Chaudieu, Huguet,
Cusset, Javogues. Alongside of them, the friends of Chalier,
Robespierre's and Marat's followers, and the disciples of Saint-Just,
Bertrand de Lyon, Buonarotti, Antonelle, Rossignol and Babeuf. Behind
them, the bandits of the street, those "who gutted houses during the
Revolution," peculators or Septembriseurs out of employment, in short,
the relics of the terrorist gang or of the revolutionary army. Their
plan, true to their precedents, character and principles, consists not
only in despatching "the rascals who keep coaches, the moneyed men and
monopolisers," all the deputies and functionaries who do not resign at
the first summons, but also, and especially, in killing "the General
of the Interior, his staff, the seven ministers and the five 'cocked-
hats' (panach?s) of the Luxembourg," that is to say, the five
Directors themselves. Such allies are troublesome. Undoubtedly, the
government, which considers them as its forlorn hope, and that it may
have need of them in a crisis, spares them as much as possible.
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