At the Cafe Manouri it was given out that his views of the government were the only ones which, like the magnet, would attract all citizens to the Revolution.

It is not the same with citizen Billaud-Varennes." (Report of the Purveyor, Nivose 9.) "In certain clubs and groups there is a rumor that Robespierre is to be appointed dictator.....

The people do justice to his austere virtues; it is noticed that he has never changed his opinions since the Revolution began."] [Footnote 3182: "Souvenirs d'un deporte." by P.Villiers, (Robespierre's secretary for seven months in 1790,) p.2.

"Of painstaking cleanliness."-- Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 94.

Description of Robespierre, published in the newspapers after his death: "His clothes were exquisitely clean and his hair always carefully brushed."] [Footnote 3183: D'Hericault, "La Revolution du 9 Thermidor," (as stated by Daunou) .-- Meillan, "Memoires," p.4.