“Clos le présent à deux heures de relevée dudit jour, vingt-cinq messidor, an troisième de la République une et indivisible, et ont lesdits citoyens Charpentier et Gély, ainsi que nos adjoints et ledit citoyen Desgranges, signés le présent avec nous, après lecture, approuvé trente-neuf mots rayés comme nuls, ainsi signés Gély, Charpentier Le Blanc, Desgranges, Jourdain et Beurnier. Plus bas est écrit. Enregistré à Paris, le premier thermidor an 3ᵒ. Reçu quatre livres. Signé Caron. Deux mots rayés nuls à la présente. “Pour _coppie_ conforme, délivrée par nous, membres du bureau du Domaine national du département de Paris. “A Paris, le sept thermidor an troisième de la Republique une et indivisible. Signé RENESSON, DUCHATEL. “Collationné à l’original, déposé aux archives de Seine-et-Oise. _L’archiviste_, SAINTE-MARIE MÉVIL.” The lack of education in the Robespierrian functionary is worth noting. VIII CATALOGUE OF DANTON’S LIBRARY No part of the very scanty evidence we possess upon Danton’s personal life and habits is of more value than this little list. It is the small and carefully chosen bookcase of a man thoroughly conversant with English and Italian as well as with his own tongue. He buys a work in the original almost invariably, and collects, in a set of less than two hundred works, classic after classic. He has read his Johnson and his Pope; he knows Adam Smith; he has been at the pains to study Blackstone. It must be carefully noted that every book he bought was his own choice. There were only a few legal summaries at the old home at Arcis, and Danton was a man who never had a reputation for learning or for letters, still less had he cause to buy a single volume for effect. I know of few documents more touching than this catalogue, coming to the light after seventy years of silence, and showing us the mind of a man who was cut off suddenly and passed into calumny. He had read familiarly in their own tongues Rabelais and Boccaccio and Shakespeare. _The following volumes are in English_:—