Guadet, Chasset, Chambon, Lidon, Valady, Defermon, Kervelegen,
Lariviere, Rabaut-Saint-Etienne, and Lesage; pronounced outlaws and
traitors, they are to be led to the scaffold without trial as soon as
they can be got hold of.--Finally, on the 3rd of October, a great
haul of the net in the Assembly itself sweeps off the benches all the
deputies that still seem capable of any independence: the first thing is
to close the doors of the hall, which is done by Amar, reporter of the
Committee of General Security;[11104] then, after a declamatory and
calumnious speech, which lasts two hours, he reads off names on two
lists of proscriptions: forty-five deputies, more or less prominent
among the Girondins, are to be at once summoned before the revolutionary
tribunal; seventy-three others, who have signed secret protests against
the 31st of May and 2nd of June, are to be put in jail. No arguing!
the majority dares not even express an opinion. Some of the proscribed
attempt to exculpate themselves, but they are not allowed to be heard;
none but the Montagnards have the floor, and they do no more than add
to the lists, each according to personal enmity; Levasseur has Vigee put
down, and Duroi adds the name of Richon. One their names being called,
all the poor creatures who happen to be inscribed, quietly advance and
"huddle together within the bar of the house, like lambs destined to
slaughter," and here they are separated into two flocks; on the one hand
the seventy-three, and on the other, the ten or twelve who, with
the Girondins already kept under lock and key, are to furnish the
sacramental and popular number, the twenty-two traitors, whose
punishment is a requirement of the Jacobin imagination;[11105] on
the left, the batch for the prison; on the right, the batch for the
guillotine.

To those who might be tempted to imitate them or defend them this is
a sufficient lesson.--Subject to the boos, hisses and insults from the
hags lining the streets, the seventy-three[11106] are conducted to the
prisoners' room in the town hall. This, already full, is where they pass
the night standing on benches, scarcely able to breathe. The next day
they are crammed into the prison for assassins and robbers, "la Force,"
on the sixth story, under the roof; in this narrow garret their beds
touch each other, while two of the deputies are obliged to sleep on the
floor for lack of room. Under the skylights, which serve for windows,
and at the foot of