Revolution is considered to be between 600,000 and 800,000 dead. (SR)]
[Footnote 31126: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 399, 592,
602-606.--"Proces-verbal des 8, 9, 10 Septembre, extrait des registres
de la municipalite de Versailles." (In the "Memoires sur les journees de
Septembre"), p. 358 and following pages.--Granier de Cassagnac, II. 483.
Bonnet's exploit at Orleans, pointed out to Fournier, Sept. I. Fournier
replies: "In God's name, I am not to be ordered; when the bloody beggars
have had their heads cut off the trial may be held later!"]
[Footnote 31127: Roch Marcandier, 210. Speech by Lazowski to the section
of Finistere, fauborg Saint-Marceau. Lazowski had, in addition, set free
the assassins of the mayor of Etampes, and laid their manacles on the
bureau table.]
[Footnote 31128: Malouet, II. 243 (Sept. 2).--Moniteur, XIII. 48
(session of Sept. 27, 1792). We see in the speech of Panis that
analogous scenes took place in the committee of supervision. "Imagine
our situation. We were surrounded by citizens irritated against the
treachery of the court. We were told: 'Here is an aristocrat who is
going to fly; you must stop him, or your yourselves are traitors!'
Pistols were pointed at us and we found ourselves obliged to sign
warrants, not so much for our own safety as for that of the persons
denounced."]
[Footnote 31129: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 258.--Prudhomme, "Les Crimes
de la Revolution," III. 272.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 631.--De
Ferriere, III. 391.--(The expression quoted was recorded by Retif de la
Bretonne.)]
[Footnote 31130: That is how to do it, must any anarchist or hopeful
revolutionary have thought, upon reading Taine's livid description.-But
also: "Do not let the bourgeois read this, it might scare them and make
our task more difficult." (SR).]
[Footnote 31131: Moniteur, XIII. 698, 698 (numbers for Sept. 15 and 16).
Ibid., Letter of Roland, 701; of Petion, 711.--Buchez et Roux, XVIII.
33. 34.--Prudhomme's journal contains an engraving of this subject
(Sept. 14)--"An Englishman admitted to the bar of the house denounces to
the National Assembly a robbery committed in a house occupied by him at
Chaillot by two bailiffs and their satellites. The robbery consisted
of twelve louis, five guineas, five thousand pounds in assignats, and
several other objects." The courts before which he appeared did not dare
take up his case (Buchez et Roux, XVII. P. 1, Sept. 18).]
[Footnote 31132: Buchez et Roux, XVI
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