them against the
National Assembly and the council. They have organized a Star Chamber
and they have a small army under pay, aided by what they found or stole
in the palace and elsewhere, or by supplies purchased by Danton, who is
underhandedly the chieftain of this horde."--Dusaulx, "Memoires," 441.
"On the following day (Sept. 3) I went to see one of the most estimated
personalities at this epoch. 'You know,' said I to him, 'what is going
on?'--'Very well; but keep quiet; it will soon be over. A little more
blood is still necessary.'--I saw others who explained themselves much
more definitely. "--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 445.]

[Footnote 3165: Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la Revolution
Francaise," 3rd part, ch. X.]

[Footnote 3166: Prudhomme, "Les Revolutions de Paris" (number for Sept.
22). At one of the last sessions of the commune "M. Panis spoke of Marat
as of a prophet, another Simeon Stylite. 'Marat,' said he, 'remained six
weeks sitting on one thigh in a dungeon.' "--Barbaroux, 64.]

[Footnote 3167: Weber, II. 348. Collot dwells at length, "in
cool-blooded gaiety," on the murder of Madame de Lamballe and on the
abominations to which her corpse was subjected. "He added, with a sigh
of regret, that if he had been consulted he would have had the head of
Madame de Lamballe served in a covered dish for the queen's supper."]

[Footnote 3168: On the part played by Robespierre and his
presence constantly at the Commune see Granier de Cassagnac, II.
55.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 205. Speech by Robespierre at the commune,
Sept. 1: "No one dares name the traitors. Well, I give their names
for the safety of the people: I denounce the libertycide Brissot, the
Girondist factionists, the rascally commission of the Twenty-One in the
National Assembly; I denounce them for having sold France to Brunswick,
and for having taken in advance the reward for their dastardly act." On
the 2nd of September he repeats his denunciation, and consequently on
that day warrants are issued by the committee of supervision against
thirty deputies and against Brissot and Roland (Mortimer-Ternaux, III.
216, 247).]

[Footnote 3169: "Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Aug.
30.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 217 (resolutions of the sections
Poissonniere and Luxembourg).--Granier de Cassagnac, II. 104 (adhesion
of the sections Mauconseil, Louvre, and Quinze-Vingt).]

[Footnote 3170: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 156.]

[Footnote 3171: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.