.]

[Footnote 3111: Stated by Petion in his speech (Moniteur, Nov. 10,
1792).]

[Footnote 3112: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 116 (session of Aug. 23).]

[Footnote 3113: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 461.--Moore, I. 273 (Aug. 31).]

[Footnote 3114: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 267 (article by Prudhomme in the
"Revolutions de Paris").]

[Footnote 3115: "Les Revolutions de Paris," Ibid., "A number of
sans-culottes were there with their pikes; but these were
largely outnumbered by the multitude of uniforms of the various
battalions."--Moore, Aug, 31: "At present the inhabitants of the
faubourgs Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau are all that is felt of the
sovereign people in Paris."]

[Footnote 3116: More, Aug. 26.]

[Footnote 3117: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 471. Indictment against
Jean-Julien.--In referring to M. Mortimer-Ternaux we do so because, like
a true critic, he cites authentic and frequently unedited documents.]

[Footnote 3118: Retif de la Bretonne, "les Nuits de Paris," 11th night,
p. 372.]

[Footnote 3119: Moore, Sept. 2.]

[Footnote 3120: Moore, Sept. 3.--Buchez et Roux, XVI. 159 (narrative
by Tallien).--Official report of the Paris commune, Sept. 4 (in the
collection of Barriere and Berville, the volume entitled "Memoires sur
les journees de Septembre"). The commune adopts and expands the fable,
probably invented by it. Prudhomme well says that the story of the
prison plot, so scandalously circulated during the Reign of Terror,
appears for the first time on the 2d of September. The same report was
spread through the rural districts. At Gennevilliers, a peasant while
lamenting the massacres, said to Malouet: "It is, too, a terrible thing
for the aristocrats to want to kill all the people by blowing up the
city" (Malouet, II. 244).]

[Footnote 3121: Official reports of the commune, Aug. 11.]

[Footnote 3122: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 446. List of the section
commissioners sitting at the Hotel-de-ville, Aug. 10, before 9 o'clock
in the morning.]

[Footnote 3123: Official reports of the commune, Aug. 21. "Considering
that, to ensure public safety and liberty, the council-general of the
commune required all the power delegated to it by the people, at the
time it was compelled to resume the exercise of its rights," sends a
deputation to the National Assembly to insist that "the new
department be converted, pure and simple, into a tax-commissioners'
office."--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 25. Speech of Robespierre in the
name of the c