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[ Carnot, "Mémoires," II., 161. "The evil having reached its last stage, it was necessary to have a 10th of June instead of a 31st of May."—Mallet-Dupan, II., 333, 334. The plan for canceling the military division of the Interior under Augereau's command was to be carried out between the 15th and 20th of August. If the triumvirate should resist, Pichegru and Villot were to march on the Luxembourg. Carnot refused to accept the project "unless he might name the three new Directors."—De la Rue, "Histoire du 18 Fructidor." Carnot said to the Moderates who asked him to act with them: "Even if I had a pardon in my pocket, amply confirmed by the royal mouth, I should have no confidence.">[
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[ Occupied by the members of the Directory.]
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[ Mathieu Dumas, "Mémoires," III., 113.]
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[ Mallet-Dupan, II., 327. "Barras is the only one who plays squarely and who, taking the risk, wants Jacobinism to triumph par fas et nefas."—Ibid., 339. "The triumvirs hesitated up to Friday; Barras, the most furious of the three, and master of Augereau, decided his two colleagues."—Ibid, 351. "Barras and Reubell, by dint of exciting the imagination of that poor little philosophizer La Révellière, succeeded in converting him."—Thibaudeau, II., 272. "It was Barras who bore off the honors of dictatorship that night... . La Révellière shut himself up in his house as in an impenetrable sanctuary. Reubell, at this moment, his head somewhat affected, was watched in his apartment.">[
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[ Mallet-Dupan, II., 304, 305, 331.—Carnot, II., 117.]