"The column of militia sets out to-day; there are
no more than thirty persons in it, and these again are all paid or not
paid clerks, attach?s of the Republic, all these belonging to the
department, to the director of domains, in fine, all the bureaus."
[134] M. de Lafayette, "M?moires," II., 162. (Letter of July 22,
1799.) "The other day, at the mass in St. Roch, a man by the side of
our dear Grammont, said fervently: "My God, have mercy on us,
exterminate the nation !" This, indeed, simply meant: "My God, deliver
us from the Convention system!"
[135] Schmidt,298, 352, 377, 451, etc. (Ventose, Frimaire and
Fructidor, year VII.)
[136] Ibid., III. (Reports of Prairial, year III., department of the
Seine.)
[137] M. de Lafayette, "Memoires," II., 164. (Letter of July 14,
1799.) - De Tocqueville, "(?uvres compl?tes," V., 270. (Testinony of
a contemporary.) - Sauzay, X., 470, 471. (Speeches by Briot and de
Echass?riaux): "I cannot understand the frightful state of torpor into
which minds have fallen; people have come to believing nothing, to
feeling nothing, to doing nothing . . . . The great nation which
had overcome all and created everything around her, seems to exist
only in the armies and in a few generous souls.
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