' ' Bel Air,' etc., and say whether
death is not preferable to such an abode." Some persons, indeed, the
sooner to end the matter, wrote to the public prosecutor, accusing
themselves, demanding a king and priests, and are at once guillotined,
as they hoped to be. - Cf. the narrative of "La Translation des 132
? Nantois Paris," and Riouffe, "M?moires," on the sufferings of
prisoners on their way to their last prison.
[22] Berryat Saint-Prix, p. IX., passim.
[23] Campardon, II., 224.
[24] Berryat Saint-Prix, 445. - Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon,"
II., 352. - Alfred Lallier, p. 90. - Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 394.
[25] Berryat Saint-Prix, pp.23, 24.
[26] Berryat Saint-Prix, p.458. "At Orange, Madame de Latour-Vidan,
aged eighty and idiotic for many years, was executed with her son. It
is stated that, on being led to the scaffold, she thought she was
entering a carriage to pay visits and so told her son." - Ibid., 471.
After Thermidor, the judges of the Orange commission having been put
on trial, the jury declared that " they refused to hear testimony for
the defense and did not allow the accused even informal lawyers to
defend them."
[27] Camille Boursier," La Terreur en Anjou," p.
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