, 88. (Denunciation of Fouquier-Tinville, signed Saulnie.)
According to Saulnie he dined regularly twice a week at No 6 rue
Serpente, with one Demay, calling himself a lawyer and living with a
woman named Martin. In this death-trap, in the middle of orgies, the
freedom or death of those in prison was bargained for in money with
impunity. One head alone, belonging to the house of Boufflers,
escaping the scaffold through the intrigues of these vampires, was
worth to them thirty thousand livres, of which one thousand were paid
down and a bond given for the rest, payable on being set at liberty.
- Morellet, "Memoires," II., 32. The agent of Mesdames de Bouffiers
was Abb? Chevalier, who had formerly known Fouquier-Tinville in the
office of a procureur an Parliament and who, renewing the
acquaintance, came and drank with Fouquier. "He succeeded in having
the papers of the ladies Bouffiers, which were ready to be sent to the
Tribunal, placed at the bottom of the file." - Mallet-Dupan, "
Memoires," II., 495. "Fouquier-Tinville received a pension of one
thousand crowns a month from Mesdames de Bouffiers; the ransom
increased one quarter each month on account of the atrocity of the
circumstances.
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