"The president of the military commission was a man named Lacombe, already banished from the city on account of a judgment against him for robbery.

The other individuals employed by Tallien comprised a lot of valets, bankrupts and sharpers."] [Footnote 1190: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 493.

(Speech by Danton, August 31, and decree in conformity therewith by the Convention).] [Footnote 1191: Mallet-Dupan, II., 17.

"Thousands of traders in Marseilles and Bordeaux, here the respectable Gradis and there the Tarteron, have been assassinated and their goods sold.

I have seen the thirty-second list only of the Marseilles emigres, whose property has been confiscated....