Lazare.") The narrator is put into prison in the rue de S?vres in
October, 1793. - II., 186. ("An historical account of the jail in
the rue de S?vres.") The narrator was confined there during the last
months of the Reign of Terror.
[52] A game of chance.
[53] "Un S?jour en France de 1792 ? 1795," 281. "We had an
appointment in the afternoon with a person employed by the committee
on National Domains; he was to help my friend with her claims. This
man was originally a valet to the Marquise's brother; on the outbreak
of the Revolution he set up a shop, failed and became a rabid Jacobin,
and, at last, member of a revolutionary committee. As such, he found
a way . . . . to intimidate his creditors and obtain two
discharges of his indebtedness without taking the least trouble to pay
his debts." . . . . "I know an old lady who was kept in prison
three months for having demanded from one of these patriots three
hundred livres which he owed her." (June 3, 1795.) "I have generally
noticed that the republicans are either of the kind I have just
indicated, coffee-house waiters, jockeys, gamblers, bankrupts, and low
scribblers, or manual laborers more earnest in their principles, more
ignorant and more brutal, all spending what they have earned in vulgar
indulgence.
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