324 to 334, the correspondence of secret agents sent into the interior.] [Footnote 3290: Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 37, to Fromcastel on mission in Indre-et-Loire, Floreal 13, year II.

"The Committee sends you a letter from the people's club of Chinon, demanding the purging and organization of all the constituted authorities of this district.

The committee requests you to proceed at once to carry out this important measure."] [Footnote 3291: Words of Robespierre, session of the convention September 24, 1793 .-- On another representative, Merlin de Thionville, who likewise stood fire, Robespierre wrote as follows: "Merlin de Thionville, famous for surrendering Mayence, and more than suspected of having received his reward."] [Footnote 3292: Guillon, II., 207.--"Fouche," by M.de Martel, 292.] [Footnote 3293: Hamel, III., 395, and following pages .-- Buchez et Roux, XXX., 435.

(Session of the Jacobin club, Nivose 12, year II.

Speech of Collot d'Herbois.) "To-day I no longer recognize public opinion; had I reached Paris three days later, I should probably have been indicted."] [Footnote 3294: Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d'Auvergne," 438.
(Unpublished memoir of Maignet.)] [Footnote 3295: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 165, 191.