(Thermidor 2.) Eulogy of the revolutionary government by Barere and decree of the police "unanimously adopted amidst the loudest applause."] [Footnote 3229: Moniteur, XXI., 329.] [Footnote 3230: Lafayette, "Memoires," IV., 330.

"At last came the 9th of Thermidor.

It was not due to people of common sense.

Their terror was so great that an estimable deputy, to whom one of his colleagues put the question, no witness being present, 'how long must we endure this tyranny ?' was upset by it to such a degree as to denounce him."] [Footnote 3231: Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du Lundi," V., 209.

(Sieyes' unpublished papers.)--Moniteur, XVIII., 631, containing an example of both the terror and style of the most eminent men, among others of Fourcroy the celebrated chemist, then deputy, and later, Counselor of State and Minister of Public Instruction.