He is accused in the Jacobin Club, Brumaire 18, year II., of not addressing the Convention often enough, to which he replies: "After twenty years' devotion to the practice of medicine I have succeeded in supporting my sans-culotte father and my sans-culottes sisters....

As to the charge made by a member that I have given most of my time to science.

...

I have attended the Lycee des Arts but three times, and then only for the purpose of sans-culotteising it."] [Footnote 3232: Michelet, (1798-1874), "Histoire de la Revolution," V., preface XXX (3rd ed.).

"When I was young and looking for a job, I was referred to an esteemed Review, to a well-known philanthropist, devoted to education, to the people, and to the welfare of humanity.