This
section, on learning that its vote against the decrees" was put down
as a cipher in the general count of votes," protested and declared
that "when the vote was taken at the meeting of Fructidor 22, it was
composed of 845 citizens representing 2,594 votes." Nevertheless, in
the general recapitulation of Vend?miaire its vote counts for nothing.
- The same remark for the "Fid?lit?" section. Its minutes state that
the d?crees are rejected "unanimously," and that it is composed of
1,300 citizens; its vote, likewise, goes for nothing. The totals
given by the recapitulation are as follows: Voters on the
Constitution, 1,107,368. For, 1,057,390. Against, 49,978. - Voters
on the Decrees, 314,382. For, 205,498. Against, 108,794. - Mallet-
Dupan (I., 313) estimates the number of electors, at Paris, who
rejected the decrees, at eighty thousand. Fi?v?e, "Correspondance
avec Bonaparte," introduction, p. 126. - (A few days before
Vend?miaire 13, Fi?v?e, in the name of the Theatre-Fran?ais section,
came, with two other commissioners, to verify the returns announced by
the Convention.) "We divided the returns into three parts; each
commissioner undertook to check off one of these parts, pen in hand,
and the conscientious result of our labor was to show that, although
the Convention had voting done in a mass by all the regiments then in
France, individually, the majority, incontestably was against its
project.
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