ndivisible. F. Pontard, bishop of the Republic in the department
of Dordogne."--Dauban La Demagogie en 1793, p. 557. Arrest of
representative Osselin, letter his brother, cure of Saint-Aubin, to the
committee of section Mutius Scoevola, Brumaire 20, year II.,"Like Brutus
and Mutius Scoevola, I trample on the feelings with which I idolised
my brother! O, truth, thou divinity of republicans, thou knowest the
incorruptibility of may intentions!" (and so on for fifty-three lines).
"These are my sentiments, I am fraternally, Osselin, minister of worship
at Saint-Aubin."--P.S. "It was just as I was going to answer a call of
nature that I learned this afflicting news." (He keeps up this bombast
until words fail him, and finally, frightened to death, and his
brain exhausted, he gives this postscript to show that he was not an
accomplice.)]

[Footnote 2133: A term denoting the substitution of ten instead of seven
days as a division of time in the calendar, and forced into use during
the Revolution.]

[Footnote 2134: "Recuil de pieces authentiques servant a l'histoire de
la revolution a Strasbourg," II., 299. (A district order.)]

[Footnote 2135: Later, when Lenin and Stalin resurrected Jacobinism,
they placed the headquarters of any subversive movement outside the
country where it operated. (SR.)]

[Footnote 2136: Thermidor refers to the a very important day and event
during the French Revolution: the day Robespierre fell: Thermidor 9,
year II, (July 27, 1794), Robespierre's fall, effective the 10, was
prepared by his adversaries, Tallien, Barras, Fouche etc., essentially
because they feared for their lives. Robespierre and 21 of his followers
were executed on the evening of the 10th of Thermidor year II. (SR.).]

[Footnote 2137: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 426. (Instructions sent by the
Directory to the National Commissions, Frimaire, year II.)--Ibid., ch.
X. to XVIII.]

[Footnote 2138: Ibid., IV., 688.An order of the Director, Germinal 14,
year VI.--"The municipal governments will designate special days in each
decade for market days in their respective districts, and not allow,
in any case, their ordinance to be set aside on the plea that the said
market days would fall on a holiday. They will specially strive to
break up all connection between the sales of fish and days of fasting
designated on the old calendar. Every person exposing food or wares
on sale in the markets on days other than those fixed by the municipal
governm