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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

- Decree of Prairial 9: the same against nine members of
former committees. - Decrees of Prairial 10 to Thermidor 22, year
III: condemning 6 Montagnards to death, one to transportation and
twenty put under arrest.
[8] Barb?-Marbois," M?moires," preface, p. VIII. "Except about fifty
men who are honest and intelligent, history presents no sovereign
assembly containing so much vice, abjectness and ignorance." ??Buchez
et Roux, XXXVII., 7. (Speech by Legendre, Thermidor 17, year III.)
"It is stated in print that, at most, there are but twenty pure men in
this Assembly." - Ibid., 27. Order of the Lepelletier section,
Vendemiaire 10, year IV. "It is certain that we owe the dearth and
all its accompanying evils to the incapacity and brigandage of the
present government."
[9] Mallet-Dupan, " Correspondance," etc., I., 211. (May 27, 1795.)
[10] "Un Sejour en France," 267. 271, (Amiens, March 13, April 12,
1795.)
[11] Meissner, "Voyage ? Paris," 123, 351. (The author arrives in
Paris, September 22, 1795.)
[12] Decrees of Fructidor 5 and 13, year III.
[13] Mallet-Dupan ("Correspondance avec la cour de Vienne," I., 292,
August 30, 1795).


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