20, June 5, etc.]

[Footnote 2512: Dumouriez, "Memoires," book III. ch. VI.]

[Footnote 2513: "Letter of a young mechanician," proposing to make a
constitutional king, which, "by means of a spring, would receive
from the hands of the president of the Assembly a list of ministers
designated by the majority" (1791).]

[Footnote 2514: Servan, who was Girondist minister of war, proposed to
let 20 000 federes or provincial National guards establish themselves
outside Paris. (SR).]

[Footnote 2515: You will meet this sinister expression later on when
the Government ceased killing in France but simply sent undesirables and
imaginary or real opponents overseas to death-camps. Transportation was
used by Stalin and Hitler only their extermination took place in their
own countries not overseas. (SR).]

[Footnote 2516: Moniteur, XI. 426 (session of May 19). Speech by
Lasource: "Could not things be so arranged as to have a considerable
force near enough to the capital to terrify and keep inactive the
factions, the intriguers, the traitors who are plotting perfidious plans
in its bosom, simultaneously with the maneuvers of outside enemies?"]

[Footnote 2517: 'Mallet du Pan, "Memoires." I. 303. Letter of Malouet,
June 29: "The king is calm and perfectly resigned. On the 19th he wrote
to his confessor: "Come, sir; never have I had so much need of your
consolations. I am done with men; I must now turn my eyes to heaven. Sad
events are announced for to-morrow. I shall have courage.' "--"Lettres
de Coray au Protopsalte de Smyrne" (translated by M. de Queux de
Saint-Hilaire,) 145, May 1st: "The court is in peril every moment. Do
not be surprised if I write you some day that his unhappy king and his
wife are assassinated."."]

[Footnote 2518: Retif de la Bretonne, "Nuits de Paris," Vol. XVI.
(analyzed by Lacroix in "Bibliotheque de Retif de la Bretonne" ).--Retif
is the man in Paris who lived the most in the streets and had the most
intercourse with the low class.]

[Footnote 2519: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3276. Letter from the
Directory of Clamecy, March 27, and official report of the civil
commissioners, March 31, 1792, on the riot of the raftsmen. Tracu, their
captain, armed with a cudgel ten feet long, compelled peaceful people
to march along with him, threatening to knock them down; he tried to get
the head of Peynier, the clerk of the Paris dealers in wood. "I shall
have a good supper to-night," he exclaimed "(or the head