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[79] Moniteur， XVIII.， 291. (Speech by Barère， session of Brumaire 8， year II.) At this rate， there are one hundred and forty deputies on mission to the armies and in the departments. - Before the institution of the Committee of Public Safety， (April 7， 1793) there were one hundred and sixty representatives in the departments， sent there to hasten the levy of two hundred thousand men. (Moniteur， XVII.， 99， speech by Cambon， July 11， 1793.) The Committee gradually recalled most of these representatives and， on the 16th July， only sixty-three were on mission. - (Ibid.， XVII.， 152， speech by Gossuin， July 16.) - On the 9th of Niv？se， the committee designated fifty-eight representatives to establish the revolutionary government in certain places and fixing the limits of their jurisdictions. (Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 22.) Subsequently， several were recalled， and replaced by others. - The letters and orders of the representatives on mission are filed in the National Archives according to departments， in two series， one of which comprises missions previous to Thermidor 9， and the other missions after that date.
[80] Thibaudeau， "Histoire du Terrorisme dans le department de la Vienne，" p.4. "Paris， Brumaire 15， the sans-culotte Piorry， representative of the people to the sans-culottes composing the popular club of Poitiers."[81] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 116. (Letter of Laplanche， Orleans， September 10， 1793. - "Also procès-verbaux of the Orleans sections， September 7.) "I organized them， after selecting them from the popular club， into a revolutionary committee. They worked under my own eye， their bureau being in an adjoining chamber. . . Irequired sure， local information， which I could not have had without collaborators of the country. . . . The result is that I have arrested this night more than sixty aristocrats， strangers or 'suspects.' - "De Martel， "études sur Fouche，" 84. Letter of Chaumette， who posted Fouché concerning the Nevers Jacobins.
"Surrounded by royalists， federalists and fanatics， representative Fouché had only 3 or 4 persecuted patriots to advise him."[82] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 88. Speech by Rousselin， Frimaire 9 - Ibid.， F.7， 4421. Speech and orders issued by Rousselin， Brumaire 25. - Cf.. Albert Babeau， "Histoire de Troyes pendant la Revolution，" vol. II. Missions of Gamier de Rousselin and B？.
[83] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 145. (Order of Maignet， Avignon， Floreal 13， year II.， and proclamation of Floréal 14.) - Ibid.， AF.， II.， 111， Grenoble. Prairial 8， year II. Similar orders issued by Albitte and Laporte， for renewing all the authorities of Grenoble. -Ibid， AF.， II.， 135. Similar order of Ricord at Grasse， Pluvi？se 28， and throughout the Var. - Ibid.， AF.， II.， 36. Brumaire， year II.， circular of the Committee of Public Safety to the representatives on mission in the departments： "Before quitting your post， you are to effect the most complete purification of the constituted authorities and public functionaries."[84] Decrees of Frimaire 6 and 14， year II.
[85] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 22. Acts of the committee of Public Safety， Niv？se 9， year II.
[86] Ibid.， AF.， II.， 37. Letter to the Committee on the War， signed by Barère and Billaud-Varennes， Pluvi？se 23，， year II.
[87] Ibid.， AF.， II.， 36. Letter of the Committee of Public Safety to Le Carpentier， on mission in l'Orne， Brumaire 19， year II. "The administrative bodies of Alen？on， the district excepted， are wholly gangrened； all are Feuillants， or infected with a no less pernicious spirit. . . . For the choice of subjects， and the incarceration of individuals， you can refer to the sans-culottes： the most nervous are Symaroli and Préval. - At Montagne， the administration must be wholly removed， as well as the collector of the district， and the post-master； . . . purify the popular club， expel nobles and limbs of the law， those that have been turned out of office， priests， muscadins， etc. . . . Dissolve two companies， one the grenadiers and the other the infantry who are very muscadin and too fond of processions. . . . Re-form the staff and officers of the National Guard. To secure more prompt and surer execution of these measures of security you may refer to the present municipality， the Committee of Surveillance and the Cannoneers.
[88] Ibid.， AF.，II.， 37. To Ricord， on mission at Marseilles， Pluvi？se 7， year II， a strong and rude admonition： he is going soft， he has gone to live with Saint-Même， a suspect； he is too biased in favor of the Marseilles people who， during the siege "made sacrifices to procure subsistences；" he blamed their arrest， etc. - Floréal 13， year II.， to Bouret on mission in the Manche and at Calvados. "The Committee are under the impression that you are constantly deceived by an insidious secretary who， by the bad information he has given you， has often led you to give favorable terms to the aristocracy， etc." -Vent？se 6， year II.， to Guimberteau， on mission near the army on the coasts of Cherbourg： "The committee is astonished to find that the military commission established by you， undoubtedly for striking off the heads of conspirators， was the first to let them off. Are you not acquainted with the men who compose it？ For what have you chosen them？
If you do not know them， how does it happen that you have summoned them for such duties？ " - Ibid.， and Vent？se 23， order to Guimberteau to investigate the conduct of his secretary[89] See especially in the "Archives des Affaires étrangères，" vols.
324 to 334， the correspondence of secret agents sent into the interior.