They were almost unknown to the new generation, forgotten by many of the old, and feared by the conventionalists; at that time they possessed only the frail support of the coteries of the Faubourg St. Germain, and some remains of the emigration.
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v12"
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
It was what the French conventionalists of 1793 called "desoler la patience" of their victims.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
Notwithstanding this check, the conventionalists succeeded in isolating the insurrection, and this was a great point.
"History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"
F. A. M. Miguet