[Footnote 1194: Ibid., II., 281. (Decree of the Convention, Oct. 12);
II. 312. (Orders of Couthon and his colleagues, Oct. 25); II., 366-372
(Instructions of the temporary commission, Brumaire 26).]
[Footnote 1195: Ibid. III., 153-156. Letter of Laporte to Couthon, April
13, 1794.]
[Footnote 1196: The contemporary French Encyclopedia "QUID" ed. Lafont,
1996 states on page 755 that according to Louis Marie Prudhomme there
were 31 000 victims at Lyons. (SR.)]
[Footnote 1197: Ibid. II. 135-137. (Resolutions of the Revolutionary
Commission, Germinal 17.) and Letters of Cadillot to Robespierre,
Floréal, year II). III., 63.]
[Footnote 1198: Guillon de Montléon, II., 399. (Letter of Perrotin,
member of the temporary commission to the revolutionary committee of
Moulin.) "The work before the new commission may be considered as an
Organization of the Septembrisade; the process will be the same but
legalized by an act passed."]
[Footnote 1199: Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 192. (Decree of October 12).]
[Footnote 11100: Ibid., XXX., 457. (Decree of November 23).]
[Footnote 11101: "Mémoires de Fréron." (Letter of Fréron, Nivose
6).--Guillon de Montléon, II., 391.]
[Footnote 11102: Decrees of October 12 and December 24.--Archives
Nationales, AF. II., 44. The representatives on mission wanted to do the
same thing with Marseilles. (Orders of Fréron, Barras, Salicetti, and
Ricard, Nivôse 17, year II.) "The name of Marseilles, still borne by
this criminal city, shall be changed. The National Convention shall be
requested to give it another name. Meanwhile it shall remain nameless
and be thus known." In effect, in several subsequent documents,
Marseilles is called the nameless commune.]
[Footnote 11103: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 204. (Session of June 24:
"Strong expressions of dissent are heard on the right." Legendre,
"I demand that the first rebel, the first man there (pointing to the
"Right" party) who interrupts the speaker, be sent to the Abbaye."
Couhey, indeed, was sent to the Abbaye for applauding a Federalist
speech.--Cf. on these three months.--Mortimer-Ternaux, vol. VIII.]
[Footnote 11104: Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 175.--Dauban: "La Démagogie à
Paris en 1793," 436 (Narrative by Dulaure, an eye-witness).]
[Footnote 11105: There were really only twenty-two brought before the
revolutionary tribunal.]
[Footnote 11106: Dauban, XXVI., p. 440. (Narrative of Blanqui, one of
the seventy-three.)]
[Footnote 11107: Buchez et Roux. XXIX., 178, 179. Osselin: "I demand the
decree of accusation against them all."--Amar: "The apparently negative
conduct of the minority of the Convention since the 2nd of June, was
a new plot devised by Barbaroux." Robespierre: "If there are other
criminals among those you have placed under arrest the Committee of
General Security will present to you the nomenclature of them and you
will always be at liberty to strike."]
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