Details on an all-powerful clothes-dealer in the Lombards Section.

If we may believe the female citizens of the Assembly "he said everywhere that whoever was disagreeable to him should be turned out of the popular club." (Ventose 13, year II.)] [Footnote 3350: Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un Sexagenaire," III., 111.
Details on another member of the commune, Bergot, ex-employee at the Halle-aux-Cuirs and police administrator, may be found in "Memoires des Prisons," I., 232, 239, 246, 289, 290.

Nobody treated the prisoners more brutally, who protested against the foul food served out to them, than he.

"It is too good for bastards who are going to be guillotined."....
"He got drunk with the turnkeys and with the commissioners themselves.
One day he staggered in walking, and spoke only in hiccoughs: he would go in that condition.

The house-guard refused to recognize him; he was arrested" and the concierge had to repeat her declarations to make the officer of the post "give up the hog."] [Footnote 3351: "Memoires sur les Prisons," I., 211.