[Footnote 3106: "Archives Nationales," F7, 4426. Letter of the police administrators, Aug. 11. Declaration of Delaunay, Aug. 12.] [Footnote 3107: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 59 (session of Aug. 12) Speech by Leprieur at the bar of the house.] [Footnote 3108: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 47.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 31. Speech by Robespierre at the bar of the Assembly in the name of the commune, Aug. 15.] [Footnote 3109: Brissot, in his report on Robespierre's petition.--The names of the principal judges elected show its character: Fouquier-Tinville, Osselin, Coffinhal.] [Footnote 3110: Buchez et Roux, XVII.91 (Aug. 17).] [Footnote 3111: Stated by Pétion in his speech (Moniteur, Nov. 10, 1792).] [Footnote 3112: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 116 (session of Aug. 23).] [Footnote 3113: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 461.--Moore, I. 273 (Aug. 31).] [Footnote 3114: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 267 (article by Prudhomme in the "Révolutions de Paris").] [Footnote 3115: "Les Révolutions de Paris," Ibid., "A number of sans-culottes were there with their pikes; but these were largely outnumbered by the multitude of uniforms of the various battalions."--Moore, Aug, 31: "At present the inhabitants of the faubourgs Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau are all that is felt of the sovereign people in Paris."] [Footnote 3116: More, Aug. 26.] [Footnote 3117: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 471. Indictment against Jean-Julien.--In referring to M. Mortimer-Ternaux we do so because, like a true critic, he cites authentic and frequently unedited documents.] [Footnote 3118: Rétif de la Bretonne, "les Nuits de Paris," 11th night, p. 372.] [Footnote 3119: Moore, Sept. 2.] [Footnote 3120: Moore, Sept. 3.--Buchez et Roux, XVI. 159 (narrative by Tallien).--Official report of the Paris commune, Sept. 4 (in the collection of Barrière and Berville, the volume entitled "Mémoires sur les journées de Septembre"). The commune adopts and expands the fable, probably invented by it. Prudhomme well says that the story of the prison plot, so scandalously circulated during the Reign of Terror, appears for the first time on the 2d of September. The same report was spread through the rural districts. At Gennevilliers, a peasant while lamenting the massacres, said to Malouet: "It is, too, a terrible thing for the aristocrats to want to kill all the people by blowing up the city" (Malouet, II. 244).] [Footnote 3121: Official reports of the commune, Aug. 11.] [Footnote 3122: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 446. List of the section commissioners sitting at the Hôtel-de-ville, Aug. 10, before 9 o'clock in the morning.]