(Letter to his constituents on the Revolution, Fructidor 18, p.26.)
"The Constitution, the Constitution alone, is the rallying word at
Clichy. " - Barb?-Marbois, "Souvenirs d'un D?port?," I., page 12 and
preface. The largest number wanted to disregard the future and forget
the past."
[58] Mallet-Dupan, II., 336. "Eighty of the deputies who were menaced
have slept elsewhere since the 30th of August, keeping together in one
domicile for fear of being carried off at night." -- Mathieu Dumas,
III., 10. "I could no longer occupy my house in Paris, rue Fosses-du-
Temple, without risking an attack from the sbirri (Italian police
officers) of the Directory, who pro claimed in the clubs that the
people must be avenged in (our) houses. " - Mallet-Dupan, II. 343.
"This pretended conspiracy imputed to the councils by the triumvirs,
is a romance similar to those of Robespierre." - Ibid., 346. "There
has been no conspiracy, properly so-called, of the Legislative Corps
against the Directory." - Only, "every constitution in France kills
the Revolution if the Revolutionary leaders has not destroyed in time.
And this, because four-fifths of France being detached from the
Revolution, the elections will put into the legislative and
administrative offices men who were opposed to the Revolution.
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