epted, rather than to retard this dispatch. The first thing the
Committee of Public Safety have had to care for was to save the republic
and make the administrations fully responsible for it. They were fully
aware of this, and accordingly have allowed the circulation of these
funds... They have been forced, through the wise management of the
Committee, to contribute themselves to the safety of the republic."]

[Footnote 1164: Archives Nationales, Letter of Robert Lindet, June 16,
AF. II., 43. The correspondence of Lindet, which is very interesting,
well shows the sentiments of the Lyonnese and the policy of the
"Mountain." "However agitated Lyons may be, order prevails; nobody wants
either king or tyrant; all use the same language: the words republic,
union, are in everybody's mouth." (Eight letters.) He always gives the
same advice to the Committee of Public Safety: "Publish a constitution,
publish the motives of the bills of arrest," which are indispensable to
rally everybody to the Convention, (June 15).]

[Footnote 1165: Guillon de Montleon, I., 309 (July 24).]

[Footnote 1166: Sauzay, IV., 268.--Paul Thibaud, 50.--Marcelin Boudet,
185.--Archives Nationales AF. II., 46. Extract from the registers of the
Council of the department of Loire-Inferieure, July 14. The department
protests that its decree of July 5 was not "a rupture with the
Convention, an open rebellion against the laws of the State, an idea
very remote from the sentiments and intentions of the citizens present."
Now, "the plan of a Constitution is offered to the acceptance of the
sovereign. This fortunate circumstance should bring people to one
mind, and, with hope thus renewed, let us at once seize on the means
of salvation thus presented to us."--Moniteur, XVII., 102. (Speech of
Cambon, July 11.)]

[Footnote 1167: Louvet, 119, 128, 150, 193.--Meillan, 130, 141. (On
the disposition and sentiments of the provinces and of the public
in general, the reader will find ample and authentic details in the
narratives of the fugitives who scattered themselves in all directions,
and especially those of Louvet, Meillan, Dulaure, and Vaublanc.) Cf.
the "Memoires de Hua" and "Un Sejour en France in 1792 and
1795."--Mallet-du-Pan already states this disposition before 1789 (MS.
Journal). "June, 1785: The French live simply in a crowd; they must all
cling together. On the promenades they huddle together and jostle each
other in one alley; the same when there is mo