"Gachez, intoxicated, about eleven o'clock at night, with several women as drunk as himself, compelled the keeper of the Temple of Reason to open the doors, threatening him with the guillotine."-- Ibid., 166.

He addressed the sans-culottes in the popular club: "Now is the time to put yourselves in the place of the rich.

Strike, and don't put it off!"-- Ibid., 165." 42,633 livres were placed in the hands of Gachez and the committee, as secret revolutionary service money....

Between December 4 and 10 Gachez received 20,000 livres, in three orders, for revolutionary expenses and provisional aid....

The leaders of the party disposed of these sums without control and, it may be added, without scruple; Gachez hands over only four thousand livres to the sectional poor-committee.