[17] Moniteur, XXV., 637. (Address to Frenchmen by Lareveill?re-
Lepeaux, in the name of the Commission of Eleven, affixed to the
decree of Fructidor 13.) "Let all opposition to the legitimacy of this
measure cease! The only legitimate measure is that which saves the
country! Besides, if the majority of the primary assemblies of France
approve of it, who dares say that the people would have renounced its
sovereignty in thus expressing its will! " - Cf. Sauzay, VII., 653 to
667, on the details and circumstances of the elections in one of the
departments.
[18] Archives Nationales1 A. II. B., 688. (Proc?s-verbaux of the
primary meetings of Seine-Inf?rieure, Dieppe, "Libert?" section,
session of Fructidor 20.) The constitution is unanimously accepted by
forty-four voters, on a call of names. Then, "before proceeding to
the nomination of electors the law was read, concerning the mode of
electing the two-thirds of the National Convention. The President
having asked if any one wished to speak on this law the order of the
day was immediately called for on all sides." The electors are
appointed forthwith and the assembly adjourns.-The clerk, who has to
draw up the minutes, writes on the margin "forty-four voters
unanimously accept the Constitution as well as the decrees of
Fructidor 5 and 13," which is false.
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