[Footnote 3288: Ibid., AF.,II., 37. To Ricord, on mission at Marseilles, Pluviôse 7, year II, a strong and rude admonition: he is going soft, he has gone to live with Saint-Même, a suspect; he is too biased in favor of the Marseilles people who, during the siege "made sacrifices to procure subsistences;" he blamed their arrest, etc.--Floréal 13, year II., to Bouret on mission in the Manche and at Calvados. "The Committee are under the impression that you are constantly deceived by an insidious secretary who, by the bad information he has given you, has often led you to give favorable terms to the aristocracy, etc."--Ventôse 6, year II., to Guimberteau, on mission near the army on the coasts of Cherbourg: "The committee is astonished to find that the military commission established by you, undoubtedly for striking off the heads of conspirators, was the first to let them off. Are you not acquainted with the men who compose it? For what have you chosen them? If you do not know them, how does it happen that you have summoned them for such duties?"--Ibid., and Ventôse 23, order to Guimberteau to investigate the conduct of his secretary] [Footnote 3289: See especially in the "Archives des Affaires étrangères," vols. 324 to 334, the correspondence of secret agents sent into the interior.] [Footnote 3290: Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 37, to Fromcastel on mission in Indre-et-Loire, Floréal 13, year II. "The Committee sends you a letter from the people's club of Chinon, demanding the purging and organization of all the constituted authorities of this district. The committee requests you to proceed at once to carry out this important measure."] [Footnote 3291: Words of Robespierre, session of the convention September 24, 1793.--On another representative, Merlin de Thionville, who likewise stood fire, Robespierre wrote as follows: "Merlin de Thionville, famous for surrendering Mayence, and more than suspected of having received his reward."] [Footnote 3292: Guillon, II., 207.--"Fouché," by M. de Martel, 292.] [Footnote 3293: Hamel, III., 395, and following pages.--Buchez et Roux, XXX., 435. (Session of the Jacobin club, Nivôse 12, year II. Speech of Collot d'Herbois.) "To-day I no longer recognize public opinion; had I reached Paris three days later, I should probably have been indicted."] [Footnote 3294: Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d'Auvergne," 438. (Unpublished memoir of Maignet.)]