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[68] Mallet-Dupan, II., 304, 305, 331. - Carnot, II., 117.
[69] Barb?-Marbois, "Journal d'un Deport?," pp.34 and 35.
[70] Mallet-Dupan, II., 343.
[71] Barb?-Marbois, ibid., p.46.
[72] Mallet-Dupan, II., 228, 342. "The use the triumvirs intended to
make of D'Entraigues' portfolio was known two months ago."- cf.
Thibaudeau, II., 279, on the vagueness, scanty proof and gross falsity
of the charges made by the Directory.
[73] Barb?-Marbois, ibid., p.46.
[74] Lord Malmesbury. "Diary," III., 559 (Sep. 17th, 1797). At
Lille, after the news of the coup d'?tat, "it was a curious
circumstance to see the horror that prevailed everywhere lest the
system of Terror should be revived. People looked as if some
exterminating spirit were approaching. The actors in the theatre
partook of the sensation. The Director called Paris, said to Ross, on
his paying him: 'Nous allons actuellement ?tre vandalis?s.' "
[75] Decrees of Fructidor 18 and 19, year V., Article 39.
[76] Thibaudeau, II., 277. "I went to the meeting of Fructidor 20,
the avenues of the Od?on were besieged with those subaltern agents of
revolution who always show themselves after commotion, like vultures
after battles.
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