o obtain a law
authorizing the commune "to collect together with wives and children
of the emigres in places of security, and to make use of the former
convents for this purpose."]

[Footnote 3134: "Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Aug. 12.--Ibid., Aug. 18.
Not being able to find M. Geoffrey, the journalist, the commune "passes
a resolution that seals be affixed to Madame Geoffroy's domicile and
that she be placed in arrest until her husband appears to release her."]

[Footnote 3135: "Proces-verbaux de la Commune." Aug.17 and 18. Another
resolution, again demanding of the National Assembly a list of the
signers for publication.]

[Footnote 3136: "Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Aug. 18, 19, 20.--On the
20th of August the commune summons before it and examines the Venetian
Ambassador. "A citizen claims to be heard against the ambassador, and
states that several carriages went out of Paris in his name. The name
of this citizen is Chevalier, a horse-shoer's assistant... The Council
decrees that honorable mention be made of the affidavits brought
forward in the accusation." On the tone of these examinations read Weber
("Memoires," II. 245), who narrates his own.]

[Footnote 3137: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 215. Narration by Peltier.--In
spite of the orders of the National Assembly the affair is repeated on
the following day, and it lasts from the 19th to the 31st of August,
in the evening.--Moore, Aug.31. The stupid, sheep-like vanity of the
bourgeois enlisted as a gendarme for the sans-culottes is here well
depicted. The keeper of the Hotel Meurice, where Moore and Lord
Lauderdale put up, was on guard and on the chase the night before: "He
talked a good deal of the fatigue he had undergone, and hinted a little
of the dangers to which he had been exposed in the course of this
severe duty. Being asked if he had been successful in his search after
suspected persons--'Yes my lord, infinitely; our battalion arrested four
priests.' He could not have looked more lofty if he had taken the Duke
of Brunswick,"]

[Footnote 3138: According to Roederer, the number arrested amounted to
from 5,000 to 6,000 persons.]

[Footnote 3139: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.147, 148, Aug.28 and
29.--Ibid., 176. Other sections complain of the Commune with some
bitterness.--Buchez et Roux, XVII. 358.--"Proces-verbaux de la Commune,"
Sept. 1. "The section of the Temple sends a deputation which declares
that by virtue of a decree of the National Assembly it with