" - " With greater
resources than Louis XVI. had in 1792, the Legislative Corps acts
like this prince and will share his fate, unless it returns war for
war, unless it declares that the first generals who dare send out the
deliberations of their armies are traitors to the State." - " It is
owing to the temporizing of the legislative councils, to the fatal
postponement of the attack on the Luxembourg in the middle of August,
on which Pichegru, Villot, General Miranda and all the clairvoyant
deputies insisted on, . . . . it is owing to foolishly insisting
on confining themselves to constitutional defenses, . . . it is
owing to the necessity which the eighty firm and energetic deputies
found of conciliating three hundred others who could not agree on the
end as well as the means, which brought about the catastrophe of the
Councils."
[64] Carnot, "M?moires," II., 161. "The evil having reached its last
stage, it was necessary to have a 10th of June instead of a 31st of
May." - Mallet-Dupan, II., 333, 334. The plan for canceling the
military division of the Interior under Augereau's command was to be
carried out between the 15th and 20th of August.
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