Add to this, they said openly before me that I was a good pigeon to pluck.

...

They gave me the escort of a state criminal of the highest importance, three national gendarmes, mounted, six National Guards, and even to the Commandant of the National Guard; citizen Miedan, member of the revolutionary committee, put himself at the head of the cortege, ten men to conduct one!....

I was obliged to pay my torturers, fifty francs to the commandant, and sixty to his men."] [Footnote 33103: Moniteur, XXI., 261.

(Speech by an inhabitant of Troyes in the Jacobin Club, Paris, Messidor 26, year II.)] [Footnote 33104: Albert Babeau, II., 164.