98: Weber, II. 265, 348.]

[Footnote 3199: Sicard, 101. Billaud-Varennes, addressing the
slaughterers.--Ibid.75. "Greater power," replied a member of the
committee of supervision, "what are you thinking of? To give you greater
power would be limiting those you have already. Have you forgotten that
you are sovereigns? That the sovereignty of the people is confided to
you, and that you are now in full exercise of it?"]

[Footnote 31100: Mehee, 171.]

[Footnote 31101: Sicard, 81. At the beginning the Marseilles men
themselves were averse to striking the disarmed, and exclaimed to the
crowd: "Here, take our swords and pikes and kill the monsters!"]

[Footnote 31102: Macbeth by Shakespeare: "I have supped full with
horrors."]

[Footnote 31103: Observe children drowning a dog or killing a snake.
Tenacity of life irritates them, as if it were a rebellion against their
despotism, the effect of which is to render them only the more violent
against their victim.]

[Footnote 31104: One may recall to mind the effect of bull-fights, also
the irresistible fascination which Saint-Augustin experienced on first
hearing the death-cry of a gladiator in the amphitheater.]

[Footnote 31105: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 131. Trial of the September
actors; the judge's summing up. "The third and forty-sixth witnesses
stated that they saw Monneuse (member of the commune) go to and come
from la Force, express his delight at those sad events that had just
occurred, acting very immorally in relation thereto, adding that
there was violin playing in his presence, and that his colleague
danced."--Sicard, 88.]

[Footnote 31106: Sicard, 87, 91. This expression by a wine-merchant, who
wants the custom of the murderers.--Granier de Cassagnac, II. 197-200.
The original bills for wine, straw, and lights have been found.]

[Footnote 31107: Sicard, 91.--Maton de la Varenne, 150.]

[Footnote 31108: Mathon de la Varenne, 154. A man from the suburbs said
to him (Mathon is an advocate): "All right, Monsieur Fine-skin; I shall
treat myself to a glass of your blood."]

[Footnote 31109: Retif de la Bretonne, "Les Nuits de Paris," 9th night,
p.388. "She screamed horribly, whilst the brigands amused themselves
with their disgraceful acts. Her body even after death was not exempt.
These people had heard that she had been beautiful."]

[Footnote 31110: Prudhomme, "Les Revolutions de Paris," number for Sept.
8, 1792. "The people subjected the flower-girl of the