Volume 4 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 4 (of 6) 82/111 (Evidence of witnesses on the trial of Carrier.)--Paris, II., 113, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon." "The prisons," says Le Bon, "overflowed at Saint-Pol. I was there and released two hundred persons. Well, in spite of my orders, several were put back by the committee of Surveillance, authorised by Lebas, a friend of Darthe. What could I do against Darthe supported by Saint-Just and Lebas? "It was necessary to take the choice of condemning him, or of being denounced and persecuted myself, without saving him."-- Beaulieu, "Essai," V., 233. |