. The days of the Directoire . hose businessit was to act as a channel of direct communicationbetween the several Sectional Committees and thegeneral headquarters of the conspiracy. Others, again, were told off to win over the troopsforming the garrison of the city whether within orwithout the walls. A body of seven hundred or eighthundred men march out to the camp of Grenelle,where the main part of the force guarding Paris wasconcentrated. They arrive before the lines at nightand summon the sleeping soldiery to join them in thename of liberty and equality. The only result is that,in the hurri
. The days of the Directoire . hose businessit was to act as a channel of direct communicationbetween the several Sectional Committees and thegeneral headquarters of the conspiracy. Others, again, were told off to win over the troopsforming the garrison of the city whether within orwithout the walls. A body of seven hundred or eighthundred men march out to the camp of Grenelle,where the main part of the force guarding Paris wasconcentrated. They arrive before the lines at nightand summon the sleeping soldiery to join them in thename of liberty and equality. The only result is that,in the hurried and confused melee that ensues, twentyor thirty of the insurgents are killed, and the rest taketo their heels. One of the agents employed by the Comite insurrec-teur in arranging this abortive military coup de mainwas an ex-Royalist officer by name Georges he had joined the Babouvistes in the firstinstance with the express purpose of betraying hisfellow-plotters to the Government, though there is no ——. X THE BABEUF CONSPIRACY 271 direct evidence of the fact—as indeed there was hardly-likely to be. Be this as it may, he now approachedboth the Director Carnot and also Cochon, Minister ofPolice, and in set terms denounced the conspiracy andits ringleaders. Acting on this information, Carnot, at the timeserving his term of office as President of the Directoireexecutif—each of the five Directors presided in turn forthree months—sent an urgent official message (eveningof May 10th, 1796) to the Council of Five Hundred,warning them of a horrible plot to be carried intoexecution the very next day. A horrible plot is fixed to break out to-morrow,at daybreak ; its object is to upset the French Con-stitution, to massacre the Corps Legislatif, all themembers of the Government, the staff of the army ofthe interior, all the constituted authorities of Paris,and to deliver this vast community to a generalpillage and dreadful massacre. The Executive Directory, bei
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