The September massacres in Paris and the history of the combat of 1791 and 1792 have already provided us with the same characteristic documents.] [Footnote 33169: Alfred Lallier, "Les Fusillades de Nantes," P.23.
(Depositions of Picard, commander of the National Guards of the escort .-- Cf.

the depositions of Jean Jounet, paver, and of Henri Ferdinand, joiner.)] [Footnote 33170: Sauzay, "Histoire de la Persecution Revolutionnaire dans le Departement du Doubs," VII., 687.

(Letter of Gregoire, December 24, 1796.) "An approximative calculation makes the number of the authors of so many crimes three hundred thousand, for in each commune there were about five or six of these ferocious brutes who, named Brutus, perfected the art of removing seals, drowning and cutting throats.

They consumed immense amounts in constructing 'Mountains,' in reveling, and in fetes every three months which, after the first parade, became parodies, represented by three or four actors in them, and with no audience.

These consisted, finally, of a drum-beater and the musical officer; and the latter, ashamed of himself, often concealed his scarf in his pocket, on his way to the Temple of Reason.