" At first, the principal
slaughterers:
* H?zine, Gidouin, and their accomplices of the neighboring districts,
* Simon and Bonneau the ex-mayor of Blois,
* B?zard, a former soldier, convicted of peculation and of robbing
cellars which he had put under sequestration,
* Berger, an ex-monk, and then dragoon who, with pistol in hand,
forced the superior of his old convent to give up the funds of the
community,
* Giot, formerly a chief-butler of Monsieur (the King's brother),
next, a judge in the September massacres and then a quartermaster in
the Pyrenees army and a pillager in Spain, then secretary to the Melun
tribunal of which he stole the cash, along with other nomads and
outlaws of the same stamp, most of them sots and roisterers, one an
ex-schoolmaster, another an ex-ladies hair-dresser, another an ex-
chair-bearer; all of them a vile lot, chosen by the government for its
agents, and, under new titles, resuming their old positions. At the
head of the armed force is Gen. Bonnard, who is accompanied by a
prostitute and who passes his time in orgies, pilfering wherever he
can, and so shameless in his thievery as to be condemned, six months
later, to three months in irons.
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