"
[27] Meissner, p. 238.-Fi?v?e, p.127, and following pages.
[28] Mallet-Dupan, I., 333, and following pages. (Letter of October
24, 1795.) "Barras does not repeat the mistake made by the Court on
the 10th of April, and shut himself up in the chateau and the
Tuileries; he posts troops and artillery in all the avenues. . . .
Fr?ron and two other representatives, supplied with coin and assignats
collected in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, four or five hundred bandits
which joined the terrorists; these formed the pretended battalions of
the loyal section which had been pompously announced to the
Convention. No section, excepting the" Quinze-vingts," sent its
battalion, this section having separated at the outset from the other
forty-seven sections. . . . The gardens and court of the Tuileries
resembled a feasting camp, where the Committees caused distributions
of wine and all sorts of provisions; many of their defenders were
intoxicated; the troops of the line were kept loyal with money and
drink."- After Vendemiaire 13, the Convention brings further
reinforcements of regular troops into Paris to keep the city under,
amounting to eight or nine thousand men.
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