[Footnote 3188: The judges and slaughterers at the Abbaye, discovered in the trial of the year IV., almost all lived in the neighborhood, in the rues Dauphine, de Nevers, Guégénaud, de Bussy, Childebert, Taranne, de l'Egoût, du Vieux Colombier, de l'Echaudé-Saint-Benoit, du Four-Saint-Germain, etc.] [Footnote 3189: Sicard, 86, 87, 101.--Jourdan, 123. "The president of the committee of supervision replied to me that these were very honest persons; that on the previous evening or the evening before that, one of them, in a shirt and wooden shoes, presented himself before their committee all covered with blood, bringing with him in his hat twenty-five louis in gold, which he had found on the person of a man he had killed."--Another instance of probity may be found in the "Procès-verbaux du conseil-général de la Commune de Versailles," 367, 371.--On the following day, Sept. 3, robberies commence and go on increasing.] [Footnote 3190: Méhée, 179. "'Would you believe that I have earned only twenty-four francs?' said a baker's boy armed with a club. 'I killed more than forty for my share.'"] [Footnote 3191: Granier de Cassagnac. II. 153.--Cf. Ibid., 202-209, details on the meals of the workmen and on the more delicate repast of Maillard and his assistants.] [Footnote 3192: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 175-176.--Granier de Cassagnac. II. 84.----Jourdan, 222.--Méhée, 179. "At midnight they came back swearing, cursing, and foaming with rage, threatening to cut the throats of the committee in a body if they were not instantly paid."] [Footnote 3193: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 320. Speech by Pétion on the charges preferred against Robespierre.] [Footnote 3194: Mathon de la Varenne, 156.--Journiac de Saint-Méard, 129.--Moore, 267.] [Footnote 3195: Journiac de Saint-Méard, 115.] [Footnote 3196: Weber, II. 265.--Journiac de Saint-Méard, 129.--Mathon de la Varenne, 155.] [Footnote 3197: Moore, 267.--Cf. Malouet, II. 240. Malouet, on the evening of Sept. 1, was at his sister-in-law's; there is a domiciliary visit at midnight; she faints on hearing the patrol mount the stairs. "I begged them not to enter the drawing-room, so as not to disturb the poor sufferer. The sight of a woman in a swoon and pleasing in appearance affected them, and they at once withdrew, leaving me alone with her."--Beaulieu, "Essais," I. 108. (Regarding the two Abbaye butchers he meets in the house of Journiac-de-Saint-Méard, and who chat with him while issuing him with a safe-conduct): "What struck me was to detect generous sentiments through their ferocity, those of men determined to protect any one whose cause they adopted."] [Footnote 3198: Weber, II. 265, 348.]