[Footnote 3295: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 165, 191. (Evidence of witnesses
on the trial of Carrier.)--Paris, II., 113, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon."
"The prisons," says Le Bon, "overflowed at Saint-Pol. I was there and
released two hundred persons. Well, in spite of my orders, several were
put back by the committee of Surveillance, authorised by Lebas, a friend
of Darthé. What could I do against Darthé supported by Saint-Just and
Lebas? He would have denounced me."--Ibid., 128, apropos of a certain
Lefèvre, "veteran of the Revolution," arrested and brought before the
revolutionary tribunal by order of Lebon. "It was necessary to take the
choice of condemning him, or of being denounced and persecuted myself,
without saving him."--Beaulieu, "Essai," V., 233. "I am afraid and I
cause fear was the principle of all the revolutionary atrocities."]
[Footnote 3296: Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile
du Clergé," IV., 136. (Orders of Pinét and Cavaignac, Pluviôse 22, and
Ventôse 2.)--Moniteur, XXIV., 469. (Session of Prairial 30, year III.,
denunciation of representative Laplanche at the bar of the house, by
Boismartin.) On the 24th of Brumaire, year II., Laplanche and General
Seepher installed themselves at St. Lô in the house of an old man of
seventy, a M. Lemonnier then under arrest. "Scarcely had they entered
the house when they demanded provisions of every kind, linen, clothes,
furniture, jewelry, plate, vehicles and title-deeds--all disappeared."
Whilst the inhabitants of St. Lô were living on a few ounces of brown
bread, "the best bread, the choicest wines, pillaged in the house of
Lemonnier, were lavishly given in pans and kettles to General Seepher's
horses, also to those of representative Laplanche." Lemonnier, set at
liberty, could not return to his emptied dwelling then transformed into
a storehouse. He lived at the inn, stripped of all his possessions,
valued at sixty thousand livres, having saved from his effects only one
silver table-service, which he had taken with him into prison.]
[Footnote 3297: Marcelin Boudet, 446. (Notes of M. Ignace de Barante.)
Also 440. (Unpublished memoir of Maignet).]
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