(Orders of Representative Bassal at Besancon.)] [Footnote 33150: We see by Barere's report (Germinal 7, year II.) that the revolutionary army of Paris, instead of being six thousand men, was only four thousand, which is creditable to Paris .-- Mallet-Dupan, II., 52.

(cf.

"The Revolution," II., 353.)--Gouvion St.Cyr, I., 137.

"In these times, the representatives had organized in Haut-Rhin what they called a revolutionary army, composed of deserters and all the vagabonds and scamps they could pick up who had belonged to the popular club; they dragged along after it what they called judges and a guillotine."-- "Hua, Souvenirs d'un Avocat," 196.] [Footnote 33151: Riouffe, "Memoires d'un detenue." P.31.] [Footnote 33152: Ibid., "These balls were brought out ostentatiously and shown to the people beforehand.

The tying of our hands and passing three ropes around our waists did not seem to him sufficient.