[Footnote 3177: Buchez et Roux, XVIII. 146. "Ma Résurrection," by Mathon de la Varenne. "The evening before half-intoxicated women said publicly on the Feuillants terrace: 'To-morrow is the day when their souls will be turned inside out in the prisons."] [Footnote 3178: "Mémoires sur les journées de Septembre. Mon agonie," by Journiac de Saint-Méard.--Madame de la Fausse-Landry, 72. The 29th of August she obtained permission to join her uncle in prison: "M. Sergent and others told me that I was acting imprudently; that the prisons were not safe."] [Footnote 3179: Granier de Cassagnac,--II. 27. According to Roch Marcandier their number "did not exceed 300." According to Louvet there were "200, and perhaps not that number." According to Brissot, the massacres were committed by about "a hundred unknown brigands."--Pétion, at La Force (Ibid., 75), on September 6, finds only about a dozen executioners. According to Madame Roland (II. 35), "there were not fifteen at the Abbaye." Lavalette the first day finds only about fifty killers at the La Force prison.] [Footnote 3180: Mathon de la Varenne, ibid., 137.] [Footnote 3181: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 183 (session of the Jacobin Club, Aug. 27). Speech by a federate from Tarn.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 126.] [Footnote 3182: Sicard, 80.--Méhée, 187.--Weber, II. 279.--Cf., in Journiac de Saint-Méard, his conversation with a Provençal.--Rétif de la Bretonne, "Les Nuits de Paris," 375. "About 2 o'clock in the morning (Sept. 3) I heard a troop of cannibals passing under my window, none of whom appeared to have the Parisian accent; they were all strangers."] [Footnote 3183: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 164, 502.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 530.--Maillard's assessors at the Abbaye were a watchmaker living in the Rue Childebert, a fruit-dealer in the Rue Mazarine, a keeper of a public house in the Rue du Four-Saint-Germain, a journeyman hatter in the Rue Sainte-Marguerite, and two others whose occupation is not mentioned.--On the composition of the tribunal at La Force, Cf. Journiac de Saint-Méard, 120, and Weber, II. 261.] [Footnote 3184: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 507 (on Damiens), 513 (on L'empereur).--Meillan, 388 (on Laforet and his wife, old-clothes dealers on the Quai du Louvre, who on the 31st of May prepare for a second blow, and calculate this time on having for their share the pillaging of fifty houses).] [Footnote 3185: Sicard, 98] [Footnote 3186: De Ferrières (Ed. Berville et Barrière), III. 486.--Rétif de la Bretonne, 381. At the end of the Rue des Ballets a prisoner had just been killed, while the next one slipped through the railing and escaped. "A man not belonging to the butchers, but one of those thoughtless machines of which there are so many, interposed his pike and stopped him... The poor fellow was arrested by his pursuers and massacred. The pikeman coolly said to us: 'I couldn't know they wanted to kill him.'"] [Footnote 3187: Granier de Cassagnac, II. 511.]