inspector of
military stores. "After the rout at Clisson, says the woman Laillet, he
appeared in the popular club with a brigand's ear attached to his hat by
way of cockade. His pockets were full of ears, which he took delight in
making the women kiss. He exposed other things which he made them kiss
and the woman Laillet adds certain details which I dare not transcribe."
(" Le patriote d'Heron," by L. de la Sicotiere, pp.9 and 10. Deposition
of the woman Laillet, fish-dealer, also the testimony of Mellinet, vol.
VIII., p.256.)]
[Footnote 33162: Wallon, V., 368. (Deposition of de Laillet.)]
[Footnote 33163: Ibid., V., 37'. (Deposition of Tabouret.)]
[Footnote 33164: Ibid., V., 373. (Deposition of Mariotte.)]
[Footnote 33165: Monieur, XXII., 321. (Deposition of Philippe
Troncjolly.)--Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire," 39.]
[Footnote 33166: Campardon, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionnaire,"
II., 30. They have ten francs a day, and full powers conferred on
them. (Orders of Carrier and Francastel, October 28, 1793.) "The
representatives.... confer collectively and individually, on each
member of the revolutionary company, the right of surveillance over
all 'suspect' citizens in Nantes, over strangers who come to or reside
there, over monopolists of every sort.... The right to make domiciliary
visits wherever they may deem it advisable.... The armed force will
everywhere respond to the demands made upon it in the name of the
company, or of any individual member composing it."--Berryat Saint-Prix,
p. 42.--Alfred Lallier, "Les Noyades de Nantes," p.20. (Deposition of
Gauthier.) Ibid., p.22. "Damn," exclaims Carrier, "I kept that execution
for Lamberty. I'm sorry that it was done by others."]
[Footnote 33167: Alfred Lallier, ibid., pp.21 and 90.--Cf. Moniteur,
XXII., 331. (Deposition of Victoire Abraham.) "The drowners made quite
free with the women, even using them for their own purposes when pleased
with them, which women, in token of their kindness, enjoyed the precious
advantage of not being drowned."]
[Footnote 33168: Campardon, II., 8. (Deposition of Commeret.)--Berryat
Saint-Prix, p. 42.-Ibid., p.28. Other agents of Carrier, Fouquet and
Lamberty, were condemned specially, "for having saved from national
vengeance Madame de Martilly and her maid... They shared the woman
Martilly and the maid between them." In connection with the "dainty
taste" of Jacobins for silk dresses M. Berryat Saint-Prix
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