If the triumvirate
should resist, Pichegru and Villot were to march on the Luxembourg.
Carnot refused to accept the project "unless he might name the three
new Directors." - De la Rue, "Histoire du 18 Fructidor." Carnot said
to the Moderates who asked him to act with them: "Even if I had a
pardon in my pocket, amply confirmed by the royal mouth, I should have
no confidence."
[65] Occupied by the members of the Directory.
[66] Mathieu Dumas, "M?moires," III., 113.
[67] Mallet-Dupan, II., 327. "Barras is the only one who plays
squarely and who, taking the risk, wants Jacobinism to triumph par fas
et nefas." - Ibid., 339. "The triumvirs hesitated up to Friday;
Barras, the most furious of the three, and master of Augereau, decided
his two colleagues." - Ibid, 351. " Barras and Reubell, by dint of
exciting the imagination of that poor little philosophizer La
R?velli?re, succeeded in converting him." - Thibaudeau, II., 272. "It
was Barras who bore off the honors of dictatorship that night . . .
. La R?velli?re shut himself up in his house as in an impenetrable
sanctuary. Reubell, at this moment, his head somewhat affected, was
watched in his apartment.
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