- There are thirty-two depositions, and among
others those of M. Altmayer, Joly and Cl?dat. One of the witnesses
states: "As to these matters, I regarded this citizen (Duquesnoy) as
tipsy or drunk, or as a man beside himself." - This is customary with
Duquesnoy. - Cf. Paris, "His. de Joseph Lebon," I., 273, 370.-
"Archives des Affaires ?trang?res," vol. 329. Letter of Gadolle,
September 11, 1793. "I saw Duquesnoy, the deputy, dead drunk at
Bergues, on Whit-Monday, at11 o'clock in the evening." - "Un S?jour en
France, 1792 to 1796, p. 136. "His naturally savage temper is
excited to madness by the abuse of strong drink. General de
.....assures us that he saw him seize the mayor of Avesnes, a
respectable old man, by the hair on his presenting him with a petition
relating to the town, and throw him down with the air of a cannibal."
"He and his brother were dealers in hops at retail, at Saint Pol. He
made this brother a general."
[99] Alexandrine des Echerolles, "Une famile noble sous la Terreur,"
209. At Lyons, Marin, the commissioner, "a tall, powerful, robust man
with stentorian lungs," opens his court with a volley of "republican
oaths. .
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