But they promptly withdrew their signatures, all being acquitted except one.

They are leaders in the Jacobin quarter and are of the same sort arid condition as their brethren of the Hotel-de-ville.

One only, an ex-collector of rentes, may have had an education; the rest are carpenters, floor-tilers, shoemakers, tailors, wine-dealers, eating-house keepers, cartmen, bakers, hair-dressers, and joiners.

Among them we find one ex-stone-cutter, one ex-office runner, one ex-domestic and two sons of Samson the executioner.] [Footnote 3348: Morellet, "Memoires," I., 436-472.] [Footnote 3349: On the ascendancy of the talkers of this class see Dauban ("Paris en 1794," pp.

118-143).