es, Sainte-Genevieve.]

[Footnote 2671: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 240.]

[Footnote 2672: Mortimer-Ternaux, 446 (list of the commissioners who
took their seats before 9 o'clock in the morning). "Le Tableau general
des Commisaires des 48 sections qui ont compose le conseil general de la
Commune de Paris, le 10 Aout, 1792," it must be noted, was not published
until three or four months later, with all the essential falsifications.
It may be found in Buchez et Roux, XVI. 450.--"Relation de l'abbe
Sicard." "At that time a lot of scoundrels, after the general meeting of
the sections was over, passed acts in the name of the whole assemblage
and had them executed, utterly unknown to those who had done this, or by
those who were the unfortunate victims of these proceedings." (supported
by documents).]

[Footnote 2673: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 270, 273. (The official report
of Mandat's examination contains five false statements, either through
omission or substitution.)]

[Footnote 2674: Claretie, "Camille Desmoulins," p.467 (notes of
Topino-Lebrun on Danton's trial). Danton, in the pleadings, says: "I
left at 1 o'clock in the morning. I was at the revolutionary commune and
pronounced sentence of death on Mandet, who had orders to fire op the
people." Danton in the same place says: "I had planned the 10th of
August." It is very certain that from 1 to 7 o'clock in the
morning (when Mandat was killed) he was the principal leader of the
insurrectional commune. Nobody was so potent, so overbearing, so well
endowed physically for the control of such a conventicle as Danton.
Besides, among the new-comers he was the best known and with the most
influence through his position as deputy of the syndic-attorney. Hence
his prestige after the victory and appointment as Minister of Justice.
His hierarchical superior, the syndic-attorney Manuel, who was there
also and signed his name, showed himself undoubtedly the pitiful fellow
he was, an affected, crazy, ridiculous loud-talker. For this reason he
was allowed to remain syndic-attorney as a tool and servant.--Beaulieu,
"Essais sur la Revolution Francaise," III. 454. "Rossignal boasted of
having committed this assassination himself."]

[Footnote 2675: "Pieces interessantes pour l'histoire," by Petion, 1793.
"I desired the insurrection, but I trembled for fear that it might
not succeed. My position was a critical one. I had to do my duty as a
citizen without sacrificing that of a magistrate; exter