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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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(Session of Germinal 7, year III.) Words of Barere: "On the 4th of Thermidor, in the Committee, Robespierre speaks like a man who had orders to give and victims to point out."-- "And you, Barere," he replies, "remember the report you made on the 2nd of Thermidor,"] [Footnote 3264: Heraclitus ( c.

540-480 BC) pre-Socratic philosopher, who believed in a cosmic justice where sinners would be punished and haunted by the Erinyes, (the furies) the handmaids of justice.

(SR).] [Footnote 3265: Saint-Just, report on the Girondists, July 8, 1793; on the necessity of imprisoning persons inimical to the Revolution, Feb.26, 1794; on the Hebertists, March 13; on the arrest of Herault-Sechelles and Simond, March 17; on the arrest of Danton and associates March 31; on a general policy, April 15 .-- Cf., likewise, his report on declaring the government revolutionary until peace is declared, Oct.

10, 1793, and his report of the 9th of Thermidor, year II.] [Footnote 3266: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 346.

(Report of March 13, 1794.)--XXXII., 314.


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