F.Pontard, bishop of the Republic in the department of Dordogne."-- Dauban La Demagogie en 1793, p.557.Arrest of representative Osselin, letter his brother, cure of Saint-Aubin, to the committee of section Mutius Scoevola, Brumaire 20, year II.,"Like Brutus and Mutius Scoevola, I trample on the feelings with which I idolised my brother! O, truth, thou divinity of republicans, thou knowest the incorruptibility of may intentions!" (and so on for fifty-three lines).
"These are my sentiments, I am fraternally, Osselin, minister of worship at Saint-Aubin."-- P.S.

"It was just as I was going to answer a call of nature that I learned this afflicting news." (He keeps up this bombast until words fail him, and finally, frightened to death, and his brain exhausted, he gives this postscript to show that he was not an accomplice.)] [Footnote 2133: A term denoting the substitution of ten instead of seven days as a division of time in the calendar, and forced into use during the Revolution.] [Footnote 2134: "Recuil de pieces authentiques servant a l'histoire de la revolution a Strasbourg," II., 299.

(A district order.)] [Footnote 2135: Later, when Lenin and Stalin resurrected Jacobinism, they placed the headquarters of any subversive movement outside the country where it operated.

(SR.)] [Footnote 2136: Thermidor refers to the a very important day and event during the French Revolution: the day Robespierre fell: Thermidor 9, year II, (July 27, 1794), Robespierre's fall, effective the 10, was prepared by his adversaries, Tallien, Barras, Fouche etc., essentially because they feared for their lives.

Robespierre and 21 of his followers were executed on the evening of the 10th of Thermidor year II.