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Petition against Javogues, with several pages of signatures, especially those of the inhabitants of Montbrison: "In the report made by him to the Convention he puts down coin and assignats at seven hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred and ninety-six francs, while the spoils of one person provided him with five hundred thousand francs in cash."-- On Fouche, De Martel, 252 .-- On Dumont, Mallet-Dupan, "Manuscript notes." (January, 1795.) On Rovere, Michelet, VI., 256 .-- Carnot, II., 87.
(According to the Memoirs of the German Olsner, who was in Paris under the Directory:) "The tone of Barras' Salon was that of a respectable gambling house; the house of Reubell resembled the waiting-room of an inn at which the mail-coach stops."] [Footnote 32145: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 391, and XXXIII., 9.
(Extracts from the Memoirs of Senart.)] [Footnote 32146: Carnot, "Memoires," I.416.Carnot, having shown to the Committee of Public Safety, proofs of the depredations committed on the army of the North, Saint-Just got angry and exclaimed: "It is only an enemy of the Republic that would accuse his colleagues of depredations, as if patriots hadn't a right to everything!"] [Footnote 32147: As to Caligula see Suetonius and Philo .-- With respect to Hakem, see "L'Expose de la Religion des Druses," by M.de Sacy.] [Footnote 32148: Saint-Just, speaking in the Convention, says: "What constitutes a republic is the utter destruction of whatever is opposed to it."] [Footnote 32149: Orders issued by Saint-Just and Lebas for the departments of Pas-de-Calais, Nord, la Somme et l'Aisne .-- Cf.
"Histoire de l'Alsace," by Stroebel, and "Recueil de pieces authentiques pour servir a l'histoire de la Revolution a Strasbourg," 3 vols.-Archives Nationales AF., II., 135, orders issued Brumaire 10, year II., and list of the one hundred and ninety-three persons taxed.] [Footnote 32150: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 32.
(Saint-Just's reply to Mayor Monet.)--De Sybel, II., 447, 448.
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