bibliothèque," May 3, 1791, pp. 4, 5.

[35] Von Sybel, vol. i, p. 273.

[36] For general account, see Thiers' "Révolution," chap. xiv; also
Lacretelle, vol. viii, p. 109; also "Memoirs of Mallet du Pan." For a
good account of the intrigues between the court and Mirabeau and of
the prices paid him, see Reeve, "Democracy and Monarchy in France,"
vol. i, pp. 213-220. For a very striking caricature published after
the iron chest in the Tuileries was opened and the evidences of
bribery of Mirabeau fully revealed, see Challamel, "Musée," etc. Vol.
i, p. 341, is represented as a skeleton sitting on a pile of letters,
holding the French crown in one hand and a purse of gold in the other.

[37] Thiers, chap. ix.

[38] For this and other evidences of steady decline in the purchasing
power of the _assignats_, see Caron, "Tableaux de Dépréciation du
papier-monnaie," Paris, 1909, p. 386.

[39] See especially "Discours de Fabre d'Eglantine," in "Moniteur" for
August 11, 1793; also debate in "Moniteur" of September 15, 1793; also
Prudhomme's "Révolutions de Paris." For arguments of much the same
tenor, see vast numbers of pamphlets, newspaper articles and speeches
during the "Greenback Craze,"--and the craze for unlimited coinage of
silver,--in the United States.

[40] See Caron, "Tableaux de Dépréciation," as above, p. 386.

[41] Von Sybel, vol. i, pp. 509, 510, 515; also Villeneuve Bargemont,