[76] Mortimer-Ternaux， III. 277 and 299 (Sept. 3). - Granier de Cassagnac， II. 257. A commissary of the section of the Quatre-Nations states in his report that "the section authorized them to pay expenses out of the affair." - Declaration of Jourdan， 151. - Lavalette， "Mémoires，" I. 91. The initiative of the commune is further proved by the following detail： "Towards five o'clock (Sept. 2) city officials on horseback， carrying a flag， rode through the streets crying： 'To arms！ To arms！' They added： 'The enemy is coming； you are all lost；the city will be burnt and given up to pillage. Have no fear of the traitors or conspirators behind your backs. They are in the hands of the patriots， and before you leave the thunderbolt of national justice will fall on them！" - Buchez et Roux， XXVIII. 105. Letter of Chevalier Saint-Dizier， member of the first committee of supervision， Sept. 10.
"Marat， Duplain， Fréron， etc.， generally do no more in their supervision of things than wreak private vengeance. . . Marat states openly that 40，000 heads must still be knocked off to ensure the success of the revolution."[77] Buchez et Roux， XVIII. 146. "Ma Résurrection，" by Mathon de la Varenne. "The evening before half-intoxicated women said publicly on the Feuillants terrace： 'To-morrow is the day when their souls will be turned inside out in the prisons."[78] "Mémoires sur les journées de Septembre. Mon agonie，" by Journiac de Saint-Méard. -- Madame de la Fausse-Landry， 72. The 29th of August she obtained permission to join her uncle in prison： "M. Sergent and others told me that I was acting imprudently； that the prisons were not safe."[79] Granier de Cassagnac， -- II. 27. According to Roch Marcandier their number "did not exceed 300." According to Louvet there were "200， and perhaps not that number." According to Brissot， the massacres were committed by about "a hundred unknown brigands." --Pétion， at La Force (Ibid.， 75)， on September 6， finds only about a dozen executioners. According to Madame Roland (II. 35)， "there were not fifteen at the Abbaye." Lavalette the first day finds only about fifty killers at the La Force prison.
[80] Mathon de la Varenne， ibid.， 137.
[81] Buchez et Roux， XVII. 183 (session of the Jacobin Club， Aug. 27).
Speech by a federate from Tarn. - Mortimer-Ternaux， III. 126.
[82] Sicard， 80. -- Méhée， 187. -- Weber， II. 279. -- Cf.， in Journiac de Saint-Méard， his conversation with a Proven？al. -- Rétif de la Bretonne， "Les Nuits de Paris，" 375. "About 2 o'clock in the morning (Sept. 3) I heard a troop of cannibals passing under my window， none of whom appeared to have the Parisian accent； they were all strangers."[83] Granier de Cassagnac， II. 164， 502. -- Mortimer-Ternaux， III.
530. -- Maillard's assessors at the Abbaye were a watchmaker living in the Rue Childebert， a fruit-dealer in the Rue Mazarine， a keeper of a public house in the Rue du Four-Saint-Germain， a journeyman hatter in the Rue Sainte-Marguerite， and two others whose occupation is not mentioned. -- On the composition of the tribunal at La Force， Cf.
Journiac de Saint-Méard， 120， and Weber， II. 261.
[84] Granier de Cassagnac， II. 507 (on Damiens)， 513 (on L'empereur).
-- Meillan， 388 (on Laforet and his wife， old-clothes dealers on the Quai du Louvre， who on the 31st of May prepare for a second blow， and calculate this time on having for their share the pillaging of fifty houses).
[85] Sicard， 98
[86] De Ferrières (Ed. Berville et Barrière)， III. 486. -- Rétif de la Bretonne， 381. At the end of the Rue des Ballets a prisoner had just been killed， while the next one slipped through the railing and escaped. "A man not belonging to the butchers， but one of those thoughtless machines of which there are so many， interposed his pike and stopped him. . . The poor fellow was arrested by his pursuers and massacred. The pikeman coolly said to us： 'I couldn't know they wanted to kill him.'"[87] Granier de Cassagnac， II. 511.
[88] The judges and slaughterers at the Abbaye， discovered in the trial of the year IV.， almost all lived in the neighborhood， in the rues Dauphine， de Nevers， Guégénaud， de Bussy， Childebert， Taranne， de l'Ego？t， du Vieux Colombier， de l'Echaudé-Saint-Benoit， du Four-Saint-Germain， etc.
[89] Sicard， 86， 87， 101. -- Jourdan， 123. "The president of the committee of supervision replied to me that these were very honest persons； that on the previous evening or the evening before that， one of them， in a shirt and wooden shoes， presented himself before their committee all covered with blood， bringing with him in his hat twenty-five louis in gold， which he had found on the person of a man he had killed." -- Another instance of probity may be found in the "Procès-verbaux du conseil-général de la Commune de Versailles，" 367， 371. --On the following day， Sept. 3， robberies commence and go on increasing.
[90] Méhée， 179. "'Would you believe that I have earned only twenty-four francs？' said a baker's boy armed with a club. 'I killed more than forty for my share.'"[91] Granier de Cassagnac. II. 153. -- Cf. Ibid.， 202-209， details on the meals of the workmen and on the more delicate repast of Maillard and his assistants.
[92] Mortimer-Ternaux， III. 175-176. - Granier de Cassagnac. II. 84. -- Jourdan， 222. -- Méhée， 179. "At midnight they came back swearing， cursing， and foaming with rage， threatening to cut the throats of the committee in a body if they were not instantly paid."[93] Mortimer-Ternaux， III. 320. Speech by Pétion on the charges preferred against Robespierre.
[94] Mathon de la Varenne， 156. -- Journiac de Saint-Méard， 129. -Moore， 267.
[95] Journiac de Saint-Méard， 115.
[96] Weber， II. 265. -- Journiac de Saint-Méard， 129. -- Mathon de la Varenne， 155.
