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[89] Dufort de Cheverney, "M?moires," (February 26, March 31 and
September 6, 1797). "That poor theoristic imbecile, La R?velli?re-
Lepaux, who, joining Barras and Reubell against Barth?l?my and Carnot,
made the 18th of Fructidor, and shut himself in his room so as not to
witness it, himself avows the quality of his staff." ("Memoires," II.,
164.) " The 18th of Fructidor necessitated numerous changes on the
part of the Directory. Instead of putting republicans, but above all,
honest, wise and enlightened men in the place of the functionaries and
employees dismissed or revoked, the selections dictated by the new
Councils fell for the most part on anarchists and men of blood and
robbery."
[90] Lacretelle, "Dix ans d'?preuves," p.317. A few days after
Fructidor, Robert, an old Jacobin, exclaimed with great joy on the
road to Brie-Comt?, "All the royalists are going to be driven out or
guillotined!" The series F.7 in the Archives Nationales, contains
hundreds of files filled with reports "on the state of the public
mind," in each department, town or canton between the years III. and
VIII. I have given several months to their examination and, for lack
of space, cannot copy any extracts.
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