d perhaps not that number." According to Brissot, the
massacres were committed by about "a hundred unknown brigands."--Petion,
at La Force (Ibid., 75), on September 6, finds only about a dozen
executioners. According to Madame Roland (II. 35), "there were not
fifteen at the Abbaye." Lavalette the first day finds only about fifty
killers at the La Force prison.]

[Footnote 3180: Mathon de la Varenne, ibid., 137.]

[Footnote 3181: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 183 (session of the Jacobin Club,
Aug. 27). Speech by a federate from Tarn.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 126.]

[Footnote 3182: Sicard, 80.--Mehee, 187.--Weber, II. 279.--Cf., in
Journiac de Saint-Meard, his conversation with a Provencal.--Retif de
la Bretonne, "Les Nuits de Paris," 375. "About 2 o'clock in the morning
(Sept. 3) I heard a troop of cannibals passing under my window, none of
whom appeared to have the Parisian accent; they were all strangers."]

[Footnote 3183: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 164, 502.--Mortimer-Ternaux,
III. 530.--Maillard's assessors at the Abbaye were a watchmaker living
in the Rue Childebert, a fruit-dealer in the Rue Mazarine, a keeper of
a public house in the Rue du Four-Saint-Germain, a journeyman hatter
in the Rue Sainte-Marguerite, and two others whose occupation is not
mentioned.--On the composition of the tribunal at La Force, Cf. Journiac
de Saint-Meard, 120, and Weber, II. 261.]

[Footnote 3184: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 507 (on Damiens), 513 (on
L'empereur).--Meillan, 388 (on Laforet and his wife, old-clothes dealers
on the Quai du Louvre, who on the 31st of May prepare for a second blow,
and calculate this time on having for their share the pillaging of fifty
houses).]

[Footnote 3185: Sicard, 98]

[Footnote 3186: De Ferrieres (Ed. Berville et Barriere), III.
486.--Retif de la Bretonne, 381. At the end of the Rue des Ballets a
prisoner had just been killed, while the next one slipped through the
railing and escaped. "A man not belonging to the butchers, but one of
those thoughtless machines of which there are so many, interposed his
pike and stopped him... The poor fellow was arrested by his pursuers and
massacred. The pikeman coolly said to us: 'I couldn't know they wanted
to kill him.'"]

[Footnote 3187: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 511.]

[Footnote 3188: The judges and slaughterers at the Abbaye, discovered in
the trial of the year IV., almost all lived in the neighborhood, in the
rues Dauphine, de Nevers, Guegenaud, de Bussy, Ch