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265.--Granier de Cassagnac, XII. 402. (The other five judges were also members of the commune.)] [Footnote 3172: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 313. Register of the General Assembly of the sans-culottes, section, Sept. 2.--"Memoires sur les journees de Septembre," 151 (declaration of Jourdan).] [Footnote 3173: "Memoires sur les journees de Septembre," narrative of Abbe Sicard, 111.] [Footnote 3174: Buchez et Roux, XVIII. 109, 178. ("La verite tout entiere," by Mehee, Jr.)--Narrative of Abbe Sicard, 132, 134.] [Footnote 3175: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 92, 93.--On the presence and complicity of Santerre. Ibid, 89-99.] [Footnote 3176: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 277 and 299 (Sept. 3).--Granier de Cassagnac, II. 257. A commissary of the section of the Quatre-Nations states in his report that "the section authorized them to pay expenses out of the affair."--Declaration of Jourdan, 151.--Lavalette, "Memoires," I. 91. The initiative of the commune is further proved by the following detail: "Towards five o'clock (Sept. 2) city officials on horseback, carrying a flag, rode through the streets crying: 'To arms! To arms!' They added: 'The enemy is coming; you are all lost; the city will be burnt and given up to pillage. Have no fear of the traitors or conspirators behind your backs. They are in the hands of the patriots, and before you leave the thunderbolt of national justice will fall on them!"--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 105. Letter of Chevalier Saint-Dizier, member of the first committee of supervision, Sept. 10. "Marat, Duplain, Freron, etc., generally do no more in their supervision of things than wreak private vengeance... Marat states openly that 40,000 heads must still be knocked off to ensure the success of the revolution."] [Footnote 3177: Buchez et Roux, XVIII. 146. "Ma Resurrection," by Mathon de la Varenne. "The evening before half-intoxicated women said publicly on the Feuillants terrace: 'To-morrow is the day when their souls will be turned inside out in the prisons."] [Footnote 3178: "Memoires sur les journees de Septembre. Mon agonie," by Journiac de Saint-Meard.--Madame de la Fausse-Landry, 72. The 29th of August she obtained permission to join her uncle in prison: "M. Sergent and others told me that I was acting imprudently; that the prisons were not safe."] [Footnote 3179: Granier de Cassagnac,--II. 27. According to Roch Marcandier their number "did not exceed 300." According to Louvet there were "200, an
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