on, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionnaire de Paris,"
V.252, 420. (Names and qualifications of the members of the Commune
of Paris, guillotined Thermidor 10 and 11.) The professions and
qualifications of some of its members are given in Lymery's
Biographical Dictionary, in Morellet's Memoirs and in Arnault's
Souvenirs.??Moniteur?? XVI., 719. (Verdicts of the Revolutionary
Tribunal, Fructidor 15, year II.) Forty-three members of the civil
or revolutionary committees, sectional commissioners, officers of
the National Guard and of the cannoneers, signed the list of the
council-general of the commune as present on the 9th of Thermidor and
are put on trial as Robespierre's adherents. But they promptly withdrew
their signatures, all being acquitted except one. They are leaders in
the Jacobin quarter and are of the same sort arid condition as their
brethren of the Hotel-de-ville. One only, an ex-collector of rentes,
may have had an education; the rest are carpenters, floor-tilers,
shoemakers, tailors, wine-dealers, eating-house keepers, cartmen,
bakers, hair-dressers, and joiners. Among them we find one
ex-stone-cutter, one ex-office runner, one ex-domestic and two sons of
Samson the executioner.]

[Footnote 3348: Morellet, "Memoires," I., 436-472.]

[Footnote 3349: On the ascendancy of the talkers of this class see
Dauban ("Paris en 1794," pp. 118-143). Details on an all-powerful
clothes-dealer in the Lombards Section. If we may believe the
female citizens of the Assembly "he said everywhere that whoever was
disagreeable to him should be turned out of the popular club." (Ventose
13, year II.)]

[Footnote 3350: Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un Sexagenaire," III., 111.
Details on another member of the commune, Bergot, ex-employee at the
Halle-aux-Cuirs and police administrator, may be found in "Memoires des
Prisons," I., 232, 239, 246, 289, 290. Nobody treated the prisoners more
brutally, who protested against the foul food served out to them, than
he. "It is too good for bastards who are going to be guillotined."....
"He got drunk with the turnkeys and with the commissioners themselves.
One day he staggered in walking, and spoke only in hiccoughs: he would
go in that condition. The house-guard refused to recognize him; he was
arrested" and the concierge had to repeat her declarations to make the
officer of the post "give up the hog."]

[Footnote 3351: "Memoires sur les Prisons," I., 211. (" Tableau
Historique de St. Lazare.") The