Saint-Louis battalion.--To those which he
names I add Huguenin, because on the 20th of June it was his duty to
read the petition of the rioters; also Saint-Huruge, because he led the
mob with Santerre.--About Rossignol, Cf. Dauban, "La Demagogie a Paris,"
369 (according to the manuscript memoirs of Mercier du Rocher). He
reaches Fontenay Aug.21, 1793, with the representative Bourbotte,
Momoro, commissary-general, three adjutants, Moulins, Hasard, the
ex-priest, Grammont, an ex-actor and several prostitutes. "The prettiest
shared her bed with Bourbotte and Rossignol." They lodge in a mansion to
which seals are affixed. "The seals were broken, and jewelry, dresses,
and female apparel were confiscated for the benefit of the general and
his followers. There was nothing, even down to the crockery, which did
not become the booty of these self-styled republicans"]

[Footnote 2528: Mathon de la Varenne, "Histoire particuliere des
evenements qui ont eu lieu en juin, juillet, aout, et septembre, 1792,"
p. 23. (He knew Saint-Huruge personally.) Saint-Huruge had married an
actress at Lyons in 1778. On returning to Paris he learned through the
police that his wife was a trollop, and he treated her accordingly.
Enraged, she looked up Saint-Huruge's past career, and found two charges
against him, one for the robbery and assassination of an alien merchant,
and the other for infanticide; she obtained his incarceration by a
lettre-de-cachet. He was shut in Charenton from Jan. 14, 1781, to
December, 1784, when he was transferred to another prison and afterwards
exiled to his estates, from which he fled to England. He returned to
France on the outbreak of the Revolution.]

[Footnote 2529: With respect to connivance, Cf. Mortimer-Ternaux, I. 132
and the following pages.--Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," I. 300. Letter of
the Abbe de Pradt, June 21, 1795. "The insurrection had been announced
for several days... The evening before, 150 deputies so many Jacobins,
had dined at their great table in the Champs-Elysees, and distributed
presents of wine and food."]

[Footnote 2530: Moniteur, XII. 642 (session of June 12, 1792, narrative
of M. Delfaux, deputy).--The execution of Damiens was witnessed by
Parisians still living, while "Charles IX.," by Marie Chenier, was
at this time the most popular tragedy.--"The French people," says M.
Ferieres (I. 35), "went away from its representation eager for vengeance
and tormented with a thirst for blood. At the