, 408, et seq. (Address of the administrators
of Aube for the elections of year V.) - Ibid., 414. (Speech by
Herlinson, Librarian of the Ecole Centrale at Troyes, Thermidor 10,
year V. in the large hall of the H?tel-de-Ville, before the
commissioners of the Directory, and received with unbounded applause.)
"The patriots consisted of fools, madmen and knaves, the first in
their illusions, the second in their dreams and the third in their
acts. . . . Everywhere you would see two or three executioners, a
dozen satellites, of whom one-half trembled for their lives, and about
a hundred witnesses, most of them in spite of themselves, against
thousands of victims. . . . Vengeance is not necessary; never was
special vengeance of any benefit to the public. Let them rest in
their slough, let them live as objects of contempt and horror."-Cf.
Sauzay, VIII., p.659 et seq.
[49] Thibaudeau, II., 152, 153.-- Mallet-Dupan, II., 262.
[50] Mallet-Dupan, II., 265, 268, 278.
[51] Thibaudeau, II., 244, 248.
[52] Carnot, "M?moires," II., 108. "Not fifteen leaders. " -
Lacretelle, "Dix Ann?es d'?preuves," p.308. "Twenty or thirty men
devoted to monarchical opinions, but who did not dare state them
openly.
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