, "Histoire de Tribunal Revolutionnaire de Paris," (trial
of Carrier), II., 55. (Deposition of the health-officer, Thomas.) "I saw
perish in the revolutionary hospital (at Nantes) seventy-five prisoners
in two days. None but rotten mattresses were found there, on each
of which the epidemic had consumed more than fifty persons. At the
Entrepot, I found a number of corpses scattered about here and there.
I saw children, still breathing, drowned in tubs full of human
excrement."]

[Footnote 4120: Narrative of the sufferings of unsworn priests, deported
in 1794, in the roadstead of Aix, passim.]

[Footnote 4121: "Histoire des Prisons," I., 10. "Go and visit," says
a contemporary, (at the Conciergerie), "the dungeons called 'the great
Caesar,' 'Bombie,' 'St. Vincent.' 'Bel Air,' etc., and say whether death
is not preferable to such an abode." Some persons, indeed, the sooner
to end the matter, wrote to the public prosecutor, accusing themselves,
demanding a king and priests, and are at once guillotined, as they hoped
to be.--Cf. the narrative of "La Translation des 132 a Nantois Paris,"
and Riouffe, "Memoires," on the sufferings of prisoners on their way to
their last prison.]

[Footnote 4122: Berryat Saint-Prix, p. IX., passim.]

[Footnote 4123: Campardon, II., 224.]

[Footnote 4124: Berryat Saint-Prix, 445.--Paris, "Histoire de Joseph
Lebon," II., 352.--Alfred Lallier, p. 90.--Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 394.]

[Footnote 4125: Berryat Saint-Prix, pp.23, 24.]

[Footnote 4126: Berryat Saint-Prix, p.458. "At Orange, Madame de
Latour-Vidan, aged eighty and idiotic for many years, was executed with
her son. It is stated that, on being led to the scaffold, she thought
she was entering a carriage to pay visits and so told her son."--Ibid.,
471. After Thermidor, the judges of the Orange commission having been
put on trial, the jury declared that "they refused to hear testimony
for the defense and did not allow the accused even informal lawyers to
defend them."]

[Footnote 4127: Camille Boursier," La Terreur en Anjou," p.228.
(Deposition of Widow Edin.) "La Persac, a nun ill and infirm, was ready
to take the oath. Nicolas, Vacheron's agent, assisted by several other
persons, dragged her out of bed and put her on a cart; from ninety to
ninety-four others were shot along with her."]

[Footnote 4128: Berryat Saint-Prix, p. 161. The following are samples of
these warrants: "S. (shot), Germinal 13, Widow Menard, seventy-two
years