, 436-472.
[49] On the ascendancy of the talkers of this class see Dauban ("Paris
en 1794," pp. 118-143). Details on an all-powerful clothes-dealer in
the Lombards Section. If we may believe the female citizens of the
Assembly "he said everywhere that whoever was disagreeable to him
should be turned out of the popular club." (Vent?se 13, year II.)
[50] Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un Sexag?naire," III., 111. Details on
another member of the commune, Bergot, ex-employee at the Halle-aux-
Cuirs and police administrator, may be found in "M?moires des
Prisons," I., 232, 239, 246, 289, 290. Nobody treated the prisoners
more brutally, who protested against the foul food served out to them,
than he. "It is too good for bastards who are going to be
guillotined.". . . . "He got drunk with the turnkeys and with the
commissioners themselves. One day he staggered in walking, and spoke
only in hiccoughs: he would go in that condition. The house-guard
refused to recognize him; he was arrested" and the concierge had to
repeat her declarations to make the officer of the post "give up the
hog."
[51] "M?moires sur les Prisons," I., 211. (" Tableau Historique de
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