Palais-Royal to
the law of retaliation."--Granier de Cassagnac, II. 329. According
to the bulletin of the revolutionary tribunal, number for Sept.
3.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 291. Deposition of the caretaker's office of
the Conciergerie prison.--Buchez et Roux, XVII.198. "Histoire des hommes
de proi," by Roch Marcandier.]

[Footnote 31111: Mortimer-Ternaux III, 257. Trial of the September
murderers; deposition of Roussel.--Ib., 628.]

[Footnote 31112: Deposition of the woman Millet, ibid., 63.--Weber, II.
350.----Roch Marcandier, 197, 198.--Retif de la Bretonne, 381.]

[Footnote 31113: Deposition of the woman Millet, ibid., 63.--Weber, II.
350.----Roch Marcandier, 197, 198.--Retif de la Bretonne, 381.]

[Footnote 31114: On this mechanical and murderous action Cf: Dusaulx,
"Memoires," 440. He addresses the bystanders in favor of the prisoners,
and, affected by his words, they hold out their hands to him. "But
before this the executioners had struck me on the cheeks with the points
of their pikes, from which hung pieces of flesh. Others wanted to cut
off my head, which would have been done if two gendarmes had not kept
them back."]

[Footnote 31115: Jourdan, 219.]

[Footnote 31116: Mehee, 179.]

[Footnote 31117: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 558. The same idea is found
among the federates and Parisians composing the company of the Egalite,
which brought the Orleans prisoners to Versailles and then murdered
them. They explain their conduct by saying that they "hoped to put an
end to the excessive expenditure to which the French empire was subject
through the prolonged detention of conspirators."]

[Footnote 31118: Retif de la Bretonne, 388.]

[Footnote 31119: Mehee, 177.]

[Footnote 31120: Prudhomme, "Les Crimes de la Revolution." III. 272.]

[Footnote 31121: Retif de la Bretonne, 388. There were two sorts of
women at the Salpetriere, those who were banded and young girls brought
in the prison. Hence the two alternatives.]

[Footnote 31122: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 295. See list of names, ages,
and occupations.]

[Footnote 31123: Barthelemy Maurice, "Histoire politique and anecdotique
des prisons de la Seine," 329.]

[Footnote 31124: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 295. See list of names, ages,
and occupations.]

[Footnote 31125: The Encyclopedia "QUID" (ROBERT LAFONT, PARIS 1998)
advises us that the number of victims killed with "cold steel and clubs"
etc total 1395 persons. The total number of French victims due to the