[Footnote 32144: See, on Tallien," Mémoires de Sénart."--On Javogues,
Moniteur, XXIV., 461, Floreal 24, III. Petition against Javogues, with
several pages of signatures, especially those of the inhabitants of
Montbrison: "In the report made by him to the Convention he puts down
coin and assignats at seven hundred and seventy-four thousand six
hundred and ninety-six francs, while the spoils of one person provided
him with five hundred thousand francs in cash."--On Fouché, De Martel,
252.--On Dumont, Mallet-Dupan, "Manuscript notes." (January, 1795.) On
Rovère, Michelet, VI., 256.--Carnot, II., 87. (According to the Memoirs
of the German Olsner, who was in Paris under the Directory:) "The tone
of Barras' Salon was that of a respectable gambling house; the house
of Reubell resembled the waiting-room of an inn at which the mail-coach
stops."]
[Footnote 32145: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 391, and XXXIII., 9. (Extracts
from the Memoirs of Sénart.)]
[Footnote 32146: Carnot, "Mémoires," I. 416. Carnot, having shown to the
Committee of Public Safety, proofs of the depredations committed on the
army of the North, Saint-Just got angry and exclaimed: "It is only an
enemy of the Republic that would accuse his colleagues of depredations,
as if patriots hadn't a right to everything!"]
[Footnote 32147: As to Caligula see Suetonius and Philo.--With respect
to Hakem, see "L'Exposé de la Religion des Druses," by M. de Sacy.]
[Footnote 32148: Saint-Just, speaking in the Convention, says: "What
constitutes a republic is the utter destruction of whatever is opposed
to it."]
[Footnote 32149: Orders issued by Saint-Just and Lebas for the
departments of Pas-de-Calais, Nord, la Somme et l'Aisne.--Cf. "Histoire
de l'Alsace," by Stroebel, and "Recueil de pieces authentiques pour
servir à l'histoire de la Révolution à Strasbourg," 3 vols.-Archives
Nationales AF., II., 135, orders issued Brumaire 10, year II., and list
of the one hundred and ninety-three persons taxed.]
[Footnote 32150: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 32. (Saint-Just's reply to Mayor
Monet.)--De Sybel, II., 447, 448. At the first interview Saint-Just
said to Schneider: "Why use so much ceremony? You know the crimes of the
aristocrats? In the twenty-four hours taken for one investigation you
might have twenty-four condemned."]
[Footnote 32151: "Journal de marche du sergent Fricasse," p.34.
(Narrative by Marshal Soult.)]
[Footnote 32152: Cf. in the Bible, the story of Ahasuerus who, out of
respect for his own majesty, can-not retract the order he has issued
against the Jews, but he turns the difficulty by allowing them to defend
themselves.]
[Footnote 32153: Mallet-Dupan, II., 47.]
[Footnote 32154: Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire,"
XVII.-Marcelin Boudet, "Les Conventionnels d'Auvergne," 269.--Moniteur,
Brumaire 27, year III., report by Calès.]
[Footnote 32155: Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," I., 371; II., 341,
344.-De Martel, "Fouché," 153.--Berryat Saint-Prix, 347, 348.]
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