" Signed, le republiquain,
Vacheron."
[107] Ibid., 210. Deposition of Madame Edin, apropos of Quesnoy, a
prostitute, aged twenty-six, Brumaire 12, year III.; and of Rose,
another prostitute. Similar depositions by Benaben and Scotty.
[108] Dauban, "La Demagogie en 1793," p.369. (Extracts from the
unpublished memoirs of Mercier de Rocher.) - Ibid., 370. "Bourdon de
l'Oise had lived with Tuncq at Chantonney, where they kept busy
emptying bottles of fine wine. Bourdon is an excellent patriot, a man
of sensibility, but, in his fits of intoxication, he gives himself up
to impracticable views. "Let those rascally administrators," he
says, "be arrested!" Then, going to the window, - he heard a runaway
horse galloping in the street- "That's another anti-revolutionary! Let
'em all be arrested!" - Cf. "Souvenirs," by General P?lleport, p.21.
At Perpignan, he attended the f?te of Reason. "The General in command
of the post made an impudent speech, even to the most repulsive
cynicisim. Some prostitutes, well known to this wretch, filled one of
the tribunes; they waved their handkerchiefs and shouted " Vive la
Raison! " After listening to similar harangues by representatives
Soubrang and Michaud, P?lleport, although half cured (of his wound)
returns to camp: "I could not breathe freely in town, and did not
think that I was safe until facing the enemy along with my comrades.
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