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Incarceration of various suspects, among others of "Lerouge, former lawyer, under suspicion of having constantly and obstinately refused revolutionary offices." Also, a person named Corps, for "having refused the presidency of the district tribunal at the time of its organization, under the pretext of consulting the Chambre des Comptes; also for being the friend of suspects, and for having accepted office only after the Revolution had assumed an imposing character."] [Footnote 3366: Marcelin Boudet, "Les conventionnels d'Auvergne," 161. (Justification of Etienne Bonarme, the last months of 1794.)] [Footnote 3367: Pans, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," II., 92.
(Declaration by Guerard, lawyer, appointed judge at Cambrai, by the Cambrai Revolutionary committee.)--Ibid., 54.
(Declaration by Lemerre, appointed juryman without his knowledge, in the Cambrai court.) "What was my surprise, I, who never was on a jury in my life! The summons was brought to me at a quarter to eleven (a onze heur moin un car--specimen of the orthography) and I had to go at eleven without having time to say good-by to my family."] [Footnote 3368: Report by Courtois on the papers found in Robespierre's domicile, 370.
(Letter of Maignet to Payan, administrator of the department of Drome, Germinal 20, year II.) "You know the dearth of subjects here.
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