taken by their brethren, entertained and manifested very contrary
sentiments. These were molested and imprisoned."--"Archives des Affaires
etrangeres," vol. 1411. (Report of the agents of August 10 and 11.) The
department commissioners... seemed to us in the best disposition. There
are some intriguers among them, however; we are following up some of
them, and striving by fraternizing with them to prevent them from being
seduced or led away by the perfidious suggestions of certain
scoundrels, the friends of federalism, amongst them.... A few patriotic
commissioners have already denounced several of their brethren accused
of loving royalty and federalism."]

[Footnote 1127: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 408.]

[Footnote 1128: Moniteur., XVII., 330. (Act passed by the Commune,
August 6.)]

[Footnote 1129: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 1411. (Reports of
agents, Aug. 10 and 11). "Citizens are, to-day, eager to see who shall
have a commissioner at his table: who shall treat him the best. .. the
Commissioners of the primary assemblies come and fraternise with them in
the Jacobin club. They adopt their maxims, and are carried away by the
energy of the good and true republican sans-culottes in the clubs."]

[Footnote 1130: Moniteur, XVII., 307, 308. (Report of Couthon to
the Convention, Aug. 2.) "You would wound, you would outrage these
Republicans, were you to allow the performance before them of an
infinity of pieces filled with insulting allusions to liberty."]

[Footnote 1131: Ibid. 124. (Session of Aug. 5.)]

[Footnote 1132: Ibid., 314; (Letter of Lhuillier, Aug. 4.)--322,
Session of the Commune, Aug. 4th; 332, (Session of the Convention, Aug.
6).--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 409. (Meeting of the Jacobin Club, Aug.
5th).]

[Footnote 1133: Buchez et Roux, 411 (Article in the Journal de la
Montagne.)]

[Footnote 1134: Moniteur, XVII., 348.]

[Footnote 1135: "Le Federation" was in 1790 "the Association of the
National Guards." (SR).]

[Footnote 1136: Buchez et Roux, XVIII., 415 and following pages.]

[Footnote 1137: Ibid., 352.--Cf. Beaulieu, "Diurnal," Aug. 9.]

[Footnote 1138: On the mechanical character of the festivals of the
Revolution read the programme of "The civic fete in honor of Valor and
Morals," ordered by Fouche at Nevers, on the 1st day of the 1st decade
of the 2nd month of the year II. (De Martel, "Etude sur Fouche,"
202); also, the programme of the "Fete de l'Etre Supreme," at Sceaux,
organi