Marat's heart, placed on a table in the Cordeliers Club, was an object of religious reverence .-- (Gregoire, "Memoires," I., 341.) "In some schools the pupils were obliged to make the sign of the cross at the names of Marat, Lazowski, etc."] [Footnote 2198: Comte de Martel, "Etude sur Fouche," 137.

Fete at Nevers, on the inaguration of a bust of Brutus .-- Ibid., 222, civic festival at Nevers in honor of valor and morals .-- Dauban, "Paris en 1794." Programme of the fete of the supreme Being at Sceaux.] [Footnote 2199: An expression by Rabaut Saint-Etienne.] [Footnote 21100: Ibid., XXXII., 373 (Report by Robespierre, Floreal 15, year II.)--Danton had expressed precisely the same opinion, supported by the same arguments, at the meeting of Frimaire 22, year II.

(Moniteur, XVIII, 654.) "Children first belong to the Republic before belonging to their parents.

Who will assure me that these children, inspired by parental egoism, will not become dangerous to the Republic?
What do we care for the ideas of an individual alongside of national ideas ?...

Who among us does not know the danger of this constant isolation?
It is in the national schools that the child must suck republican milk! ....