The French Revolution (Vol.1-3). Taine Hippolyte
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2115 (return) [ Ferrières, II. 65 (June 10,1790).—De Montlosier, I. 402. "One of these puppets came the following day to get his money of the Comte de Billancourt, mistaking him for the Duc de Liancourt. 'Monsieur,' says he, 'I am the man who played the Chaldean yesterday.'"]
2116 (return) [ Buchez and Roux, X. 118 (June 16, 1791).]
2117 (return) [ See the printed list of deputies, with the indication of their baillage or sénéchaussée, quality, condition, and profession.]
2118 (return) [ De Bouillé, 75.—When the King first saw the list of the deputies, he exclaimed," What would the nation have said if I had made up my council or the Notables in this way?" (Buchez and Roux, IV. 39.)]
2119 (return) [ Gouverneur Morris, July 31, 1789.]
2120 (return) [ Gouverneur Morris, February 25, 1789.—Lafayette, "Mémoires," V. 492. Letter of Jefferson, February 14, 1815.—Arthur Young, June 27 and 29, 1789.]
2121 (return) [ Morris, July 1, 1789.]
2122 (return) [ Morris, July 4, 1789.]
2123 (return) [ Mallet du Pan, Mercure, September 26, 1789.]
2124 (return) [ Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790; November 22, 1790.]
2125 (return) [ Dumont, 33, 58, 62.]
2126 (return) [ Sir Samuel. Romilly, "Mémoirs," I. 102. "It was their constant course first, decree the principle and leave the drawing up of what they had so resolved (or, as they called it, la rédaction) for later. It is astonishing how great an influence it had on their debates and measures".—Ibid. I. 354. Letter by Dumont, June 2, 1789. "They prefer their own folly to all the results of British experience. They revolt at the idea of borrowing anything from our government, which is scoffed at here as one of the iniquities of human reason; although they admit that you have two or three good laws; but that you should presume to have a constitution is not to be sustained."]
2127 (return) [ Dumont, 138, 151.]
2128 (return) [ Morris, January 24, 1790.]
2129 (return) [ Marmontel, XII. 265.—Ferrières,. I. 48¸ II. 50, 58, 126.—Dumont, 74.]
2130 (return) [ Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790.—According to Ferrières this party comprised about three hundred members.]
2131 (return) [ Here Ambassador Morris describes the kind of man who should form the backbone of all later revolutions whether communist or fascist ones. (SR.)]
2132 (return) [ Dumont, 33, 58, 62.]
2133 (return) [ De Lavergne, "Les Assemblées Provinciales," 384. Deliberations of the States of Dauphiny, drawn up by Mournier and signed by two hundred gentlemen (July, 1788). "The rights of man are derived from nature alone, and are independent of human conventions."]
2134 (return) [ Report by Merlin de Douai, February 8, 1790, p.2.—Malouet, II, 51.]
2135 (return) [ Dumont, 133.—De Montlosier, I, 355, 361.]
2136 (return) [ Bertrand de Molleville, II. 221 (according to a police report).—Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Révolution," I. 215. (Report of the agent Dutard, May 13, 1793)—Lacretelle, "Dix Ans d'Epreuves," p.35. "It was about midnight when we went out in the rain, sleet, and snow, in the piercing cold, to the church of the Feuillants, to secure places for the galleries of the Assembly, which we were not to occupy till noon on the following day. We were obliged, moreover, to contend for them with a crowd animated by passions, and even by interests, very different from our own. We were not long in perceiving that a considerable part of the galleries was under pay, and that the scenes of cruelty which gave pain to us were joy to them. I cannot express the horror I felt on hearing those women, since called tricoteuses, take a delight in the already homicidal doctrines of Robespierre, enjoying his sharp voice and feasting their eyes on his ugly face, the living type of envy." (The first months of 1790.)]
2137 (return) [ Moniteur, V. 237 (July 26, 1790); V. 594. (September 8, 1790); V. 631 (September 12, 1790); VI. 310 (October 6, 1790). (Letter of the Abbé Peretti.)]
2138 (return) [ De Ferrières, II. 75.—Moniteur, VI. 373 (September 6, 1790).—M. de Virieu. "Those who insult certain members and hinder the freedom of debate by hooting or applause must be silenced. Is it the three hundred spectators who are to be our judges, or the nation?" M. Chasset, President: "Monsieur opinionist, I call you to order. You speak of hindrances to a free vote; there has never been anything of the kind in this Assembly."]
2139 (return) [ Sauzay, I 140. Letter of M. Lompré, liberal deputy, to M. Séguin, chanoine (towards the end of November, 1789). "The service becomes