- Moniteur, XXV., 518, 551. (Session of
Fructidor 3.) The first idea of the commission of Eleven was to have
the Convention itself choose the two-thirds. "Its opponents took
advantage of the public outcry and broke off this plan. . . . of
the Girondist cabal." Louvet, Fructidor 3, mounted three times into
the tribune to support this project, still more scandalous than the
other. "Eh, what electoral assembly could be better than yours! You
all know each other well." Louvet adds this significant expression:
"The armies also will vote the new constitution. I have no fears of
its fate."
[14] Moniteur, XXII, 22. (Report of Lindet, 4th sans-culottide, year
II.) "Each man confines himself to his family and calculates his
resources."
[15] Meissner, 58.
[16] Decree of Fructidor s. "All Frenchmen who voted at the last
primary assemblies will be admitted to vote on the acceptance of the
Constitution." - Archives Nationales, A. II. B. 638. (General
recapitulation of the vote on the Constitution of the year III and on
the decrees of Fructidor 5 and 13 printed by order of the Convention
Vend?miaire, year IV.) Number of voters on the constitutional bill,
1,107,368.
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