460 Readings in European History merely pretended to die. According to Tacitus, a similar insensibility prevailed in Rome, a similar feeling of security and indifference to all issues. . . . I am of a very different opinion from those who claim that it is necessary to leave the Terror on the order of the day. I am confident, on the contrary, that liberty will be assured and Europe conquered so soon as you have a com- mittee of clemency. This committee will complete the Rev- olution, for clemency itself is a revolutionary measure, the most efficient of all when it is wisely dealt out. 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Refer- End of the National Assembly : Mathews, French Revolution, ences. Chapter XIII, pp. 166-181; Stephens, History of the French Revo- lution, Vol. I, Chapter XV, pp. 434-470 ; Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VIII, pp. 199-210. Opening of the War with Europe: Mathews, pp. 182-195; Ste- phens, Vol. II, pp. 27-44. Conditions in Europe in 1792: Fyffe, History of Modern Europe, Chapter I, pp. 1-27. Tenth of August and the September Massacres : Stephens, Vol. II, Chapter IV, pp. 107-150 ; Mathews, pp. 195-206 ; Cambridge Modem History, Vol. VIII, pp. 228-244. Establishment of the Republic : Mathews, Chapter XV, pp. 207- 224; Stephens, Vol. II, Chapter V, pp. 1 51-180. Reign of Terror in Paris : Stephens, Vol. II, Chapter X, pp. 321- 361 ; Mathews, Chapter XVI, pp. 224-233 ; Cambridge Modem His- tory, Vol. VIII, Chapter XII, pp. 338-371. Reign of Terror in the Provinces : Mathews, Chapter XVII, pp. 234-251 ; Stephens, Vol. II, Chapter XI, pp. 362-414. Robespierre: Mathews, Chapter XVIII, pp. 252-265. Reaction after Thermidor : Mathews, Chapter XIX, pp. 266-285; Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VIII, Chapter XIII, pp. 372-397. Course of the War to 1795: Fyffe, Chapter II, pp. 28-73; Cam- bridge Modern History, Chapter XIV, pp. 398-446. !In spite of Desmoulin's eloquent and wise plea for clemency, his friend Robespierre refused to support him, and he was brought to the scaffold, along with Danton, by the party which held that moderation was synonymous with treason to the cause of republican liberty.
