n testify that I neither saw nor heard the decree put
to vote."--Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 278. Speech by Osselin, session of
May 28: "I presented the decree as drawn up to the secretaries for their
signatures this morning. One of them, after reading it, observed to
me that the last article had not been decreed, but that the preceding
articles had been."--Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 562. Letter of the deputy
Michel. May 29. "The guards were forced, and the sanctuary of the law
invested from about four to ten hours, so that nobody could leave the
hall even for the most urgent purposes.]

[Footnote 34134: Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 308. Extract from the official
reports of the patriotic club of Butte-des-Moulins, May 30. "Considering
that the majority of the section, known for incivism and its
antirevolutionary spirit, would decline this election or would elect
commissaries not enjoying the confidence of patriots,".. the patriotic
club takes upon itself the duty of electing the two commissaries
demanded.]

[Footnote 34135: Durand-Maillan, 297. "Fragment," by Lanjuinais. "Seven
strangers, seven outside agents, Desfieux, Proly, Pereyra, Dubuisson,
Gusman, the two brothers Frey, etc., were set up by the commune as an
insurrectionary committee." Most of them are vile fellows, as is the
case with Varlet, Dobsen, Hassenfratz, Rousselin, Desfieux, Gusman,
etc.]

[Footnote 34136: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 156. "We, members of the
revolutionary commission, citizens Clemence, of the Bon-Conseil section;
Dunouy, of the Sans-culottes section; Bonin, of the section of Les
Marches, Auvray of the section of Mont-Blanc; Seguy, of the section
of Butte-des-Moulins; Moissard, of Grenelle; Berot, canton d'Issy;
Rousselin, section of the Unite; Marchand, section of Mont-Blanc;
Grespin, section of Gravilliers." They resign on the 6th of June.--The
commission, at first composed of nine members, ends in comprising eleven
(Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 316, official reports of the commune. May 31.)
then 25 (Speech by Pache to the Committee of Public Safety, June 1.)]

[Footnote 34137: Buchez et Roux XXVII. 306. Official reports of the
commune, May 31.--Ibid., 316. Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 319.]

[Footnote 34138: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 274 Speech by Hassenfratz to the
Jacobin Club, May 27.]

[Footnote 34139: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 346 (speech by Lhuillier in the
Convention, May 31).]

[Footnote 34140: Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 302, session of the Convention,
May 3