Excerpt from Reply of L. N. M. Carnot, Citizen of France, One of the Founders of the Republic, and Constitutional Member of the Executive Directory: To the Report Made on the Conspiracy of the 18th Fructidor, 5th Year, by J. Ch. Bailleul, in the Name of the Select Committee But there are other writers of amery'difi'e-'e rent character, men whofe lives have been perniciousor ufelefs to fociety; who have, eneye'rthelefs, conceived it important that pol} terijy. {hpuld beacqtlainted with their prineie ples, fiach as: they were, and with the courie of their, tranfaelions and' intrigues. This rage for perpetuating the portraitures of men'i tal deformity has been at all timesremarka bly prevalent in France 3 and the immenfe collection of French memoirs prefents us with a feries of thefe felf-accufers unexam pled inthe literature of'any other country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.