(Deposition of Victoire Abraham.) "The drowners made quite free with the women, even using them for their own purposes when pleased with them, which women, in token of their kindness, enjoyed the precious advantage of not being drowned."] [Footnote 33168: Campardon, II., 8.

(Deposition of Commeret.)--Berryat Saint-Prix, p.

42.-Ibid., p.28.Other agents of Carrier, Fouquet and Lamberty, were condemned specially, "for having saved from national vengeance Madame de Martilly and her maid...

They shared the woman Martilly and the maid between them." In connection with the "dainty taste" of Jacobins for silk dresses M.Berryat Saint-Prix cites the following answer of a Jacobin of 1851 to the judge d'instruction of Rheims; on the objection being made to him that the Republic, as he understood it, could not last long, he replied: "Possibly, but say it lasts three months.

That's long enough to fill one's pocket and belly and rumple silk dresses ?" Another of the same species said in 1871: "We shall anyhow have a week's use of it." Observers of human nature will find analogous details in the history of the Sepoy rebellion in India against the English in 1803, also in the history of the Indians in the United States.