[105] The 24th May the COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY issued these cold-blooded decrees:— “Citizen Millière, at the head of one hundred and fifty fuse-bearers, is to set fire to all houses of suspicious aspect, as well as to the public monuments of the left bank of the Seine. “Citizen Dereure, with one hundred and fifty fuse-bearers, is charged with the 1st and 2nd Arrondissement. “Citizen Billioray, with one hundred men, is charged with the 9th, 10th, and 20th Arrondissements. “Citizen Vésinier, with fifty men, has the Boulevards of the Madeleine and of the Bastille especially entrusted to him. “These Citizens are to come to an understanding with the officers commanding the barricades, for the execution of these orders. “DELESCLUZE, RÉGÈRE, RANVINE, JOHANNARD, VÉSINIER, BRUNEL, DOMBROWSKI. “Paris, 3 Prairial, year 79.” [106] This Millière, formerly an advocate and writer on the _Marseillaise_, was a native of St-Etienne, and fifty-four years of age, a cool speaker, and advocate of advanced ideas, that got him several imprisonments. In March 1870 he was taken from the prison of Sainte-Pélagie to give evidence at Tours against Pierre Bonaparte for the murder of Victor Noir, where his lucid depositions told greatly against the prisoner. When regaining his liberty he became more revolutionary than ever, writing during the siege in the _Patrie en Danger_. At the peace he became one of the members for Paris, and sat at Bordeaux and Versailles, agitating social subjects and the law of lodgers. About the 10th of April he took part with the Commune, and at the entrance of the troops was taken at the Luxembourg after having fired six rounds from a revolver, was shot on the steps of the Pantheon, and died as he opened his shirt front, shouting, “_Vive la République! Vive la Liberté! Vive l’Humanité!_” XCV.