) "Carrier
said to me in a passion: "It is you, is it, you damned beggar, who
presumes to denounce me to the Committee of Public Safety. . . .
As it is sometimes necessary for the public interests to get rid of
certain folks quickly, I won't take the trouble to send you to the
guillotine, I'll be your executioner myself!"
[132] Ibid., 175. (Deposition of Tronjolly.) 295. (Depositions of
Jean Lavigne, a shopkeeper; of Arnandan, civil commissioner; also of
Corneret, merchant.) 179. (Deposition of Villemain). - Berryat
Saint-Prix, 34. "Carrier, says the gendarme Desquer, who carried his
letters, was a roaring lion rather than an officer of the people." "He
looked at once like a charlatan and a tiger," says another witness.
[133] Ibid., XXXIV., 204. (Deposition of Lamarie.)
[134] Ibid., 183. (Deposition of Caux.)
[135] Mallet-Dupan, M?moires," II., 6. (Memorial of Feb. I, 1794.)
On Andr? Dumont, "Un S?jour en France," 158, 171. - On Merlin de
Thionville, Michelet, VI., 97.
[136] De Martel, "Fouch?" 100.
[137] Mallet-Dupan, II., 46.
[138] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 413, 423. (Letter of Julien to
Robespierre.)
[139] Archives Nationales, AF.
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