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Barras, who was then at the head of the administration, under the title of Directeur, alarmed by the distracted state of Paris, and dreading the return of the Bourbons, assembled a council of his friends and associates in crime; it was then determined that an attack should immediately be made on the Parisian royalists, or, as the gentleman who gave me this account expressed it, [19] "Dissiper les royalistes, et foudroyer les Parisiens jusque dans leurs foyers."

Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829

'foudroyer,' bethunder a patriotic Saint-Antoine into smoulder and ruin!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838