(Memoirs of S?nart).
[89] Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. Letter of Julien, Messidor
12, year II. "A good deal has been stolen here; the mayor, now in
prison, is informed of considerable losses. The former Committee of
surveillance came under serious suspicion; many people who were
outlawed only escaped by paying: it is a fact that . . . Of a
number of those who have thus purchased their lives there are some who
did not deserve to die and who, nevertheless, were threatened with
death." - Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 428. (Extracts from the Memoirs of
S?nart). "The president of the military commission was a man named
Lacombe, already banished from the city on account of a judgment
against him for robbery. The other individuals employed by Tallien
comprised a lot of valets, bankrupts and sharpers."
[90] Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 493. (Speech by Danton, August 31, and
decree in conformity therewith by the Convention).
[91] Mallet-Dupan, II., 17. "Thousands of traders in Marseilles and
Bordeaux, here the respectable Gradis and there the Tarteron, have
been assassinated and their goods sold. I have seen the thirty-second
list only of the Marseilles emigres, whose property has been
confiscated.
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