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[ Berryat Saint-Prix, 395. (Letter of Representative Moyse Bayle,)—Ibid., 216. (Words of Representative Lecarpentier at Saint-Malo.) "Why such delays? Of what use are these eternal examinations? What need is there of going so deep into this matter? The name, profession and the upshot, and the trial is over."—"He publicly stated to the informers: You don't know what facts you require to denounce the Moderates? Well, a gesture, one single gesture, suffices.">[
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[ Letter of Payan to Roman Formosa, judge at Orange: "In the commissions charged with punishing the conspirators, no formalities should exist; the conscience of the judge is there as a substitute for these... The commissions must serve as political courts; they must remember that all the men who have not been on the side of the Revolution are against it, since they have done nothing for the country... I say to all judges, in the name of the country, do not risk saving a guilty man."—Robespierre made the same declaration in the Jacobin Club. Frimaire 19, year II.: "We judge, in politics, with the suspicions of an enlightened patriotism.">[
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[ "Mémoires de Fréron" and on Fréron, (collection Barrière et Berville,) p.364. Letter of Fréron, Toulon, Nivôse 16. "More than eight hundred Toulonese have already been shot.">[
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[ Lallier, p.90. (The eleven distinct drownings ascertained by M. Lallier extend up to Pluviôse 12, year II.)]
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[ Moniteur, XXII., 227. (Official documents read in the Convention, Ventôse 21, year III.) These documents authenticate an ulterior drowning. Ventôse 9, year II., by order of Lefévre, adjutant general, forty-one persons were drowned, among whom were two men seventy-eight years of age and blind, twelve women, twelve young girls, fifteen children, of which ten were between six and ten years old, and five at the breast. The drowning took place in the Bourgneuf bay.-Carrier says in the Convention, (Moniteur, XXII., p.578), in relation to the drowning of pregnant women: "At Laval, Angers, Saumur, Chaban-Gontier, everywhere the same things took place as at Nantes.">[