[22] Manon Jeanne Roland (1754-1793), _née_ Philipon, wife of Jean Marie Roland de La Platière, Minister of the Interior in 1791. She and her husband espoused the party of the Girondins; and Madame Roland was guillotined at the instance of the Mountain, 8 November 1793. Her husband killed himself on hearing the news.--T. [23] Major the Comte de Belsunce (_d._ 1790). He was cut up into pieces and his heart was eaten by a woman.--B. [24] Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1759-1794) was elected mayor on the 14th of November 1791. He took no step to suppress the insurrections of June and August 1792, nor the massacres of September. Having voted, however, at the trial of Louis XVI. for "death with delay and appeal to the people," he became odious to the revolutionaries and was proscribed with the Girondins, 31 May 1793. He fled and perished in the Bordeaux marshes, where his body was half eaten by wolves.--T. [25] Before 1789, Paris was divided into 21 quarters. On the 23rd of April 1789 the King ruled that, for the convocation of the three Estates, the town should be divided into 60 arrondissements, or wards, and districts, for which, on the 27th of June 1790, the Constituent Assembly substituted 48 sections.--B. [26] On the 17th of Germinal Year II. (6 April 1794) a citizen presented himself at the bar of the Convention and offered a sum of money "towards the expenses of the support and repairing of the guillotine" (_Moniteur_, 7 April 1794).--B. [27] 23 March 1792.--B. [28] Francis II., Emperor of Germany, etc., etc.--T. [29] Maximin Isnard (1751-1825) voted for the death of the King, but, after distinguishing himself by the violence of his language and opinions, underwent a remarkable religious and political conversion. He was a member of the Council of Five Hundred, but took no part in public affairs after the advent of Bonaparte.--B. [30] Armand Gensonné (1758-1793), the friend and confidant of Dumouriez, executed 31 October 1793.--T. [31] Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), at one time editor of the _Moniteur_ and of the _Patriote français_, and prime mover in the declaration of war against Austria. He was guillotined on the same day as Gensonné.--T. [32] The decree ordering the dissolution of the King's Constitutional Guard was voted 29 May 1792.--B. [33] It was burnt down in 1580.--_Author's Note._ [34] Charles de Lorraine, Duc de Mayenne (1554-1611), second son of François Duc de Guise, and head of the League.--T. [35] A political club connected with the League and called the Sixteen from the number of its leading members, each of whom was put in charge of one of the then sixteen quarters of Paris.--T. [36] Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) was born either at Geneva or at Boudry, near Neufchâtel, in Switzerland.--T. [37] Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763-1794), the inventor of the Feast of Reason, self-known as "Anaxagoras Chaumette," and guillotined 13 April 1794.--T.