- Fabre de l'Aude, "Histoire
secrete du Directoire," I., p.10. "The Convention opened the prison
doors to fifteen or eighteen hundred Jacobin lunatics, zealots of the
former members of the Committee of Public Safety." - Mallet Dupan,
(ibid., I., 332, 337, 361,) estimates the numbers of terrorists
enrolled at three thousand.
[23] Barb?-Marbois, "M?moires,"9. - Meissner, p.246.
[24] Mallet-Dupan, ibid., I., 282. (Letter of August 16, 1795.) "At
Paris, the patriots of 1789 have got the upper hand. The regicides
have the greatest horror of this class because they regard it as a
hundred times more dangerous than pronounced aristocrats." Ibid., 316.
- -Meissner, p. 229. "The sectionists want neither a republic nor
monarchy but simply intelligent and honest men for the places in the
new Convention."
[25] Lavalette, "M?moires," I., 162, 170.
[26] Meissner, p. 236. - Any number of details show the features and
characters of the male and female Jacobins here referred to. For
example, Carnot, ("M?moires," I., 581,) says in his narrative of the
foregoing riot, (Prairial 1st.): "A creature with a horrible face put
himself astride my bench and kept constantly repeating: "To-day is the
day we'll make you passer le gout de pain? and furies posted in the
tribunes, made signs of the guillotine.
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