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[39] Dauban, ibid., 36 and 48. (Case of the Notary, Brichard.)
[40] Cf. "The Revolution," II., 302, 303. - Mercier, "Paris pendant
la Revolution," I., 151. - Moniteur, XVIII., 660. (Session of
Frimaire 24, speech by Lecomtre in the Convention.) - On robberies and
the bribes paid, see, among other documents, "M?moires sur les
Prisons," I., 290. (Eighty thousand francs of bribes given to the
head of the police force by Perisial, keeper of an eating-house, for
the privilege of feeding prisoners in St. Lazare.)
[41] Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 77. (Trial of Fouquier-Tinville.)
Testimony of Robillard: "Another day, in the general assembly, he
struck a citizen with his saber."
[42] Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 407. (Lists in Robespierre's
handwriting.)
[43] Miot de Melito, " M?moires," I., 46-51.-Buchot is not the only
one of his species in the ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the
archives of this ministry, vol. 324, may be found the sayings and
doings of a certain Pio, an Italian refugee who slipped into the
place, simulating poverty, and displaying patriotism, and who
denounces his chief and colleagues.-The ex-notary Pigeot, condemned to
twenty years in irons and put in the pillory, Frimaire 9, year III.
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