[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 2 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 2 (of 6) CHAPTER III 53/64
The shops are all closed, and, for twenty-four hours, the officers are not obeyed. (De Dampmartin, I.105.)] [Footnote 1322: Albert Babeau, I.187-273 .-- Moniteur, II.379.
(Extract from the provost's verdict of November 27, 1789.)] [Footnote 1323: Moniteur, ibid.
Picard, the principal murderer, confessed "that he had made him suffer a great deal; that the said sieur Huez did not die until they came near the Chaudron Inn; that he nevertheless intended to make him suffer more by stabbing him in the neck at the corner of each street, (and) by contriving it so that he might do it often, as long as there was life in him; that the day on which M.Huez died yielded him ten francs, together with the neck-buckle of M.Hues, found on him when he was arrested in his flight."] [Footnote 1324: Mercure de France,, September 26, 1789.
Letters of the officers of the Bourbon regiment and of members of the general committee of Caen .-- Floquet, VII.
545.] [Footnote 1325: "Archives Nationales," H.1453 .-- Ibid.
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