thrusts, who came to demand supplies"...."He draws his saber (against
the boatman) and strikes at him, which he avoids only by running away."]
[Footnote 32131: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 196. (Deposition of Julien.)
"Carrier said to me in a passion: 'It is you, is it, you damned beggar,
who presumes to denounce me to the Committee of Public Safety.... As it
is sometimes necessary for the public interests to get rid of certain
folks quickly, I won't take the trouble to send you to the guillotine,
I'll be your executioner myself!"]
[Footnote 32132: Ibid., 175. (Deposition of Tronjolly.) 295.
(Depositions of Jean Lavigne, a shopkeeper; of Arnandan, civil
commissioner; also of Corneret, merchant.) 179. (Deposition of
Villemain).--Berryat Saint-Prix, 34. "Carrier, says the gendarme
Desquer, who carried his letters, was a roaring lion rather than an
officer of the people." "He looked at once like a charlatan and a
tiger," says another witness.]
[Footnote 32133: Ibid., XXXIV., 204. (Deposition of Lamarie.)]
[Footnote 32134: Ibid., 183. (Deposition of Caux.)]
[Footnote 32135: Mallet-Dupan, "Memoires," II., 6. (Memorial of Feb. I,
1794.) On Andre Dumont, "Un Sejour en France," 158, 171.--On Merlin de
Thionville, Michelet, VI., 97.]
[Footnote 32136: De Martel, "Fouche" 100.]
[Footnote 32137: Mallet-Dupan, II., 46.]
[Footnote 32138: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 413, 423. (Letter of Julien to
Robespierre.)]
[Footnote 32139: Archives Nationales, AF., II., III. An order issued
by Bourbotte, Tours, Messidor 5, year II., "requiring the district
administration to furnish him personally, as well as for the citizens
attached to his commission, forty bottles of red wine and thirty of
white wine, to be taken from the cellars of emigres, or from those of
persons condemned to death; and, besides this, fifty bottles of common
wine other than white or red."--On the 2nd of Messidor, ale is drunk and
there is a fresh order for fifty bottles of red wine, fifty of
common wine, and two bottles of brandy.--De Martel, "Fouche," 419,
420.--Moniteur, XXIV., 604. (Session of Prairial 13, par III.) "Dugue
reads the list of charges brought against Mallarme. He is accused....
of having put in requisition whatever pleased him for his table and for
other wants, without paying for anything, not even for the post-horses
and postillions that carried him."--Ibid. 602. Report of Peres du Gers.
"He accuses Dartigoyte... of having taken part with his secr
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