You, Brissot, and especially you, Petion, you have received us formally, haughtily, and with reserve.

You extend to us one finger, but you never grasp the whole hand.

You have not even refused yourselves that keen delight of the ambitious, insolence and disdain."] [Footnote 3345: Buzot, "Memoires," 78.] [Footnote 3346: Edmond Bire, "La legende des Girondins." (Inedited fragments of the memoirs of Petion and Barbaroux, quoted by Vatel in "Charlotte Corday and the Girondists," III.

472, 478.)] [Footnote 3347: Buchez et Roux, XXVI.

A financial plan offered by the department of Herault adopted by Cambon and rejected by the Girondists.] [Footnote 3348: Buchez et Roux, XXV.