[315] At the bar of the National Convention, Dec. 7, 1792.
[316] "I used to meet Barrère at a table d'hòte. I considered him of a mild and amiable temper. He was very well-bred, and seemed to love the Revolution from a sentiment of benevolence. His association with Robespierre, and the court which he paid to the different parties he successively joined and afterwards deserted, were less the effect of an evil disposition, than of a timid and versatile character, and a conceit, which made it incumbent upon him to appear as a public man. His talents as an orator were by no means of the first order. He was afterwards surnamed the Anacreon of the guillotine; but when I knew him he was only the Anacreon of the Revolution, upon which, in his 'Point du Jour,' he wrote some very amorous strains."—Dumont, p. 199.
[317] Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 41.
[318] "O! peuple babillard, si tu savais agir!"
[319] Thiers, tom. iii., p. 170; Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 23.
[320] Mignet, tom. i., p. 224; Thiers, tom. iii., p. 213; Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 54.
[321] "Point de procès au roi! épargnons le pauvre tyran!"—Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 47.
[322] Dumouriez, vol. iii., p. 273.
[323] Mignet, tom. i., p. 228.
[324] M. de Septueil, in particular, quoted as being the agent by whom Louis XVI. was said to have transmitted money to his brothers when in exile, positively denied the fact, and made affidavit accordingly.—S.