"Fouquier-Tinville received a pension of one thousand crowns a month from Mesdames de Bouffiers; the ransom increased one quarter each month on account of the atrocity of the circumstances.

This method saved these ladies, whilst those who paid a sum in gross lost their lives...

It was Du Vaucel, fermier-general, who saved the Princess of Tarente....for five hundred louis, after having saved two other ladies for three hundred louis, given to one of the Jacobin leaders."] [Footnote 33120: "Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse," 324.

Coudert, of the Municipal Council, shoemaker, charged with the duty of taking silver-plate from the accused, did not know how, or was unwilling, to draw up any other than an irregular and valueless proces-verbal.

On this, an accused party objected and refused to sign.