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montagnarde1793To Autour de Robespierre: Le Conventionnel Le Bas (which of course, in addition to information on Le Bas himself, has much on other personages). I'm going to post the table of contents and if anything looks interesting, note it, and I'll type up that section.
I.
A future conventionnel.--The Le Bas family.--His father.--His sister Henriette.--Le Bas as a student and clerk of the procurer of Paris; a lawyer in Saint-Pol, and deputy of the department of Pas-de-Calais to the Federation of 14 July, 1790, then administrator to this department.--Berceau's trial.--The first letters from Le Bas to his father.
II.
Le Bas in Arras.--Letters to his father.--Formation of his political convictions.--His desire to return to Paris.
III.
Le Bas as deputy to the National Convention.--He embraces Robespierre's principles.--He renders account of his political conduct to his father.--The reasons for his unassuming attitude in the Convention.--The trial of Louis XVI.--Dumouriez.--The moral situation of the Assembly.--The Paris Commune.--Le Bas is introduced to the Duplay family by Robespierre.--His brother Francois (future adjutant-general)'s debut in the army.
IV.
Why Lamartine's version must be received on certain points of Robespierre and Le Bas's history. His processes of investigation.--Beranger presents him to the conventionnel Le Bas's widow.--The extracts of Histoire des Girondins which appeared in the National.--Errors noted by Mme Le Bas and her son.--Rectifications received.
V.
Retrospective notes.--Maximilien Robespierre received in the Duplay home.--Who Duplay the carpenter was.--His fortune.--The reasons for his political convictions.--His family.--Robespierre's "court."--Duplay's daughters.--Eleonore and Robespierre; Elisabeth and Le Bas.--Simon Duplay.--Guests and walk-ons.--Saint-Just and Henriette Le Bas.--Charlotte Robespierre.
VI.
Unedited letters of the Robespierre brothers.
VII.
What was done in the Duplay home.--The family's evenings.--Improvised concerts.--Readings by Robespierre and Le Bas.--Maximilien's habits and tastes.
VIII.
Mme Le Bas's manuscript.
IX.
Le Bas and Duquesnoy's mission to the armies.--Their first arrest.--Letters from Le Bas to his fiancee.--His return to Paris.--His marriage.--His nomination to the Committee of General Security.
X.
Le Bas and Saint-Just as extraordinary commissioners to the armies.--Their predecessors.--Situation desperate.--Disorder and lack of discipline.--Energetic measures.--The two representatives' arrests.--Incorporation of the recruits.--The army fed, dressed, and disciplined.--The propagandists.--Schneider imprisoned.--Creation of free French language schools in Alsace.
XI.
Diverse evalutions of Le Bas and Saint-Just's role in Alsace.--Historians' partiality.--The representatives with ieas in common with Bouchotte and Carnot.--Difficulties with their colleagues Baudot and Lacoste.--The true reasons for the enmity of these last.--Le Bas's conciliatory role.
XII.
The Jacobin Club.--Le Bas's presidency.--His attitude.--The Society's sessions.
XIII.
Le Bas and Saint-Just's last mission to the armies.--Small misunderstandings.--Military operations.--Reports to the Convention.--The School of Mars.--Birth of Le Bas's son.
XIV.
Robespierre's power.--His incorruptibility.--Unanimity of the witnesses.--The Cult of the Supreme Being opposed to the Cult of Reason.--Le Bas's virtue and tolerance.
XV.
9 Thermidor.--What Robespierre is reproached with.--The session of the Convention.--Le Bas's sacrifice.--The Thermidorians' state of mind.--Robespierre and his friends' arrest.--They are delivered and go to the Commune.--Robespierre's hesitations.--His [attempted] assassination.--Le Bas's suicide.--His parents and friends imprisoned.
XVI.
Funeral song.
XVII.
The changeable crowd and variable History.--Errors and contradictions.--The wife and son of the conventionnel Le Bas's rectifications of inexactitudes.--Fragility of individual opinions.--Lamartine.--Michelet.
XVIII.
Last word.
I.
A future conventionnel.--The Le Bas family.--His father.--His sister Henriette.--Le Bas as a student and clerk of the procurer of Paris; a lawyer in Saint-Pol, and deputy of the department of Pas-de-Calais to the Federation of 14 July, 1790, then administrator to this department.--Berceau's trial.--The first letters from Le Bas to his father.
II.
Le Bas in Arras.--Letters to his father.--Formation of his political convictions.--His desire to return to Paris.
III.
Le Bas as deputy to the National Convention.--He embraces Robespierre's principles.--He renders account of his political conduct to his father.--The reasons for his unassuming attitude in the Convention.--The trial of Louis XVI.--Dumouriez.--The moral situation of the Assembly.--The Paris Commune.--Le Bas is introduced to the Duplay family by Robespierre.--His brother Francois (future adjutant-general)'s debut in the army.
IV.
Why Lamartine's version must be received on certain points of Robespierre and Le Bas's history. His processes of investigation.--Beranger presents him to the conventionnel Le Bas's widow.--The extracts of Histoire des Girondins which appeared in the National.--Errors noted by Mme Le Bas and her son.--Rectifications received.
V.
Retrospective notes.--Maximilien Robespierre received in the Duplay home.--Who Duplay the carpenter was.--His fortune.--The reasons for his political convictions.--His family.--Robespierre's "court."--Duplay's daughters.--Eleonore and Robespierre; Elisabeth and Le Bas.--Simon Duplay.--Guests and walk-ons.--Saint-Just and Henriette Le Bas.--Charlotte Robespierre.
VI.
Unedited letters of the Robespierre brothers.
VII.
What was done in the Duplay home.--The family's evenings.--Improvised concerts.--Readings by Robespierre and Le Bas.--Maximilien's habits and tastes.
VIII.
Mme Le Bas's manuscript.
IX.
Le Bas and Duquesnoy's mission to the armies.--Their first arrest.--Letters from Le Bas to his fiancee.--His return to Paris.--His marriage.--His nomination to the Committee of General Security.
X.
Le Bas and Saint-Just as extraordinary commissioners to the armies.--Their predecessors.--Situation desperate.--Disorder and lack of discipline.--Energetic measures.--The two representatives' arrests.--Incorporation of the recruits.--The army fed, dressed, and disciplined.--The propagandists.--Schneider imprisoned.--Creation of free French language schools in Alsace.
XI.
Diverse evalutions of Le Bas and Saint-Just's role in Alsace.--Historians' partiality.--The representatives with ieas in common with Bouchotte and Carnot.--Difficulties with their colleagues Baudot and Lacoste.--The true reasons for the enmity of these last.--Le Bas's conciliatory role.
XII.
The Jacobin Club.--Le Bas's presidency.--His attitude.--The Society's sessions.
XIII.
Le Bas and Saint-Just's last mission to the armies.--Small misunderstandings.--Military operations.--Reports to the Convention.--The School of Mars.--Birth of Le Bas's son.
XIV.
Robespierre's power.--His incorruptibility.--Unanimity of the witnesses.--The Cult of the Supreme Being opposed to the Cult of Reason.--Le Bas's virtue and tolerance.
XV.
9 Thermidor.--What Robespierre is reproached with.--The session of the Convention.--Le Bas's sacrifice.--The Thermidorians' state of mind.--Robespierre and his friends' arrest.--They are delivered and go to the Commune.--Robespierre's hesitations.--His [attempted] assassination.--Le Bas's suicide.--His parents and friends imprisoned.
XVI.
Funeral song.
XVII.
The changeable crowd and variable History.--Errors and contradictions.--The wife and son of the conventionnel Le Bas's rectifications of inexactitudes.--Fragility of individual opinions.--Lamartine.--Michelet.
XVIII.
Last word.
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