252,
420. (Names and qualifications of the members of the Commune of
Paris, guillotined Thermidor 10 and 11.) The professions and
qualifications of some of its members are given in Lymery's
Biographical Dictionary, in Morellet's Memoirs and in Arnault's
Souvenirs. ??Moniteur?? XVI., 719. (Verdicts of the Revolutionary
Tribunal, Fructidor 15, year II.) Forty-three members of the civil or
revolutionary committees, sectional commissioners, officers of the
National Guard and of the cannoneers, signed the list of the council-
general of the commune as present on the 9th of Thermidor and are put
on trial as Robespierre's adherents. But they promptly withdrew their
signatures, all being acquitted except one. They are leaders in the
Jacobin quarter and are of the same sort arid condition as their
brethren of the H?tel-de-ville. One only, an ex-collector of rentes,
may have had an education; the rest are carpenters, floor-tilers,
shoemakers, tailors, wine-dealers, eating-house keepers, cartmen,
bakers, hair-dressers, and joiners. Among them we find one ex-stone-
cutter, one ex-office runner, one ex-domestic and two sons of Samson
the executioner.
[48] Morellet, "M?moires," I.
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