t even common honesty.
Carra, with a seat in the secret Directory of the Federates, and who
drew up the plan of the insurrection, had been condemned by the Macon
tribunals to two years' imprisonment for theft and burglary.[26139]
Westermann, who led the attacking column, had stolen a silver dish, with
a coat of arms on it, from Jean Creux, keeper of a restaurant, rue des
Poules, and was twice sent away from Paris for swindling.[26140] Panis,
chief of the Committee of Supervision,[26141] was turned out of the
Treasury Department, where his uncle was a sub cashier, in 1774, for
robbery. His colleague, Sergent, appropriates to himself "three
gold watches, an agate ring, and other jewels," left with him on
deposit.[26142] "Breaking seals, false charges, breaches of trust,"
embezzlements, are familiar transactions. In their hands piles of silver
plate and 1,100,000 francs in gold are to disappear.[26143] Among the
members of the new Commune, Huguenin, the president, a clerk at
the barriers, is a brazen embezzler.[26144] Rossignol, a journeyman
jeweller, implicated in an assassination, is at this moment subject
to judicial prosecution.[26145] Hebert, a journalistic garbage bag,
formerly check-taker in a theatre, is turned away from the Varietes for
larceny.[26146] Among men of action, Fournier, the American, Lazowski,
and Maillard are not only murderers, but likewise robbers,[26147] while,
by their side, arises the future general of the Paris National Guard,
Henriot, at first a domestic in the family of an attorney who turned
him out for theft, then a tax-clerk, again turned adrift for theft, and,
finally, a police spy, and still incarcerated in the Bicetre prison
for another theft, and, at last, a battalion officer, and one of the
September executioners.[26148]--Simultaneously with the bandits and
rascals, monstrous maniacs come out of their holes. De Sades,[26149] who
lived the life of "Justine" before he wrote it, and whom the Revolution
delivered from the Bastille, is secretary of the section of the Place
Vendome. Marat, the homicidal monomaniac, constitutes himself, after
the 23rd of August, official journalist at the Hotel-de-ville, political
advisor and consciousness of the new Commune, and the obsessive plan,
which he preaches for three years, is merely an instant and direct
wholesale butchery.

"Give me," said he to Barbaroux,[26150] "two hundred Neapolitans armed
with daggers, and with only a hand-kerchief on their