[Footnote 31113: Deposition of the woman Millet, ibid., 63.--Weber, II. 350.----Roch Marcandier, 197, 198.--Rétif de la Bretonne, 381.] [Footnote 31114: On this mechanical and murderous action Cf: Dusaulx, "Mémoires," 440. He addresses the bystanders in favor of the prisoners, and, affected by his words, they hold out their hands to him. "But before this the executioners had struck me on the cheeks with the points of their pikes, from which hung pieces of flesh. Others wanted to cut off my head, which would have been done if two gendarmes had not kept them back."] [Footnote 31115: Jourdan, 219.] [Footnote 31116: Méhée, 179.] [Footnote 31117: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 558. The same idea is found among the federates and Parisians composing the company of the Egalité, which brought the Orleans prisoners to Versailles and then murdered them. They explain their conduct by saying that they "hoped to put an end to the excessive expenditure to which the French empire was subject through the prolonged detention of conspirators."] [Footnote 31118: Rétif de la Bretonne, 388.] [Footnote 31119: Méhée, 177.] [Footnote 31120: Prudhomme, "Les Crimes de la Révolution." III. 272.] [Footnote 31121: Rétif de la Bretonne, 388. There were two sorts of women at the Salpétrière, those who were banded and young girls brought in the prison. Hence the two alternatives.] [Footnote 31122: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 295. See list of names, ages, and occupations.] [Footnote 31123: Barthélemy Maurice, "Histoire politique and anecdotique des prisons de la Seine," 329.] [Footnote 31124: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 295. See list of names, ages, and occupations.] [Footnote 31125: The Encyclopedia "QUID" (ROBERT LAFONT, PARIS 1998) advises us that the number of victims killed with "cold steel and clubs" etc total 1395 persons. The total number of French victims due to the Revolution is considered to be between 600,000 and 800,000 dead. (SR)] [Footnote 31126: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 399, 592, 602-606.--"Procès-verbal des 8, 9, 10 Septembre, extrait des registres de la municipalité de Versailles." (In the "Mémoires sur les journées de Septembre"), p. 358 and following pages.--Granier de Cassagnac, II. 483. Bonnet's exploit at Orleans, pointed out to Fournier, Sept. I. Fournier replies: "In God's name, I am not to be ordered; when the bloody beggars have had their heads cut off the trial may be held later!"] [Footnote 31127: Roch Marcandier, 210. Speech by Lazowski to the section of Finistère, fauborg Saint-Marceau. Lazowski had, in addition, set free the assassins of the mayor of Etampes, and laid their manacles on the bureau table.]