Note 467 — Front matter (continued 12)

"We may say that, on the 18th Fructidor of the year V., it was necessary that the Directory should triumph over the counter-revolution, by decimating the Councils; or that the Councils should triumph over the Republic, by overthrowing the Directory. The question thus stated, it remains to inquire, first, if the Directory could have conquered by any other means than a coup d'état, and, secondly, whether it misused its victory."—Mignet, p. 338.