(Notices by Beon, one of Danton's fellow-disciples .-- Fragment by Saint-Albin.)--"The Revolution," II., p.35, foot-note.] [Footnote 3155: Emile Bos, "Les Avocats du conseil du Roi," 515, 520.
(See Danton's marriage-contract and the discussions about his fortune.
From 1787 to 1791, he is found engaged as counsel only in three cases.)] [Footnote 3156: Madame Roland, "Memoires." (Statement of Madame Danton to Madame Roland.)] [Footnote 3157: Expressions used by Garat and Roederer .-- Larevilliere-Lepaux calls him "the Cyclop."] [Footnote 3158: Fauchet describes him as "the Pluto of Eloquence."] [Footnote 3159: Riouffe, "Memoires sur les prisons." "In prison every utterance was mingled with oaths and gross expressions."] [Footnote 3160: Terms used by Fabre d'Eglantine and Garat .-- Beugnot, a very good observer, had an accurate impression of Danton ("Memoires", I, 249-252) .-- M.

Dufort de Cheverney, (manuscript memoirs published by M.
Robert de Creveceur), after the execution of Babeuf, in 1797, had an opportunity to hear Samson, the executioner, talk with a war commissary, in an inn between Vendome and Blois.

Samson recounted the last moments of Danton and Fabre d'Eglantine.

Danton, on the way to the scaffold, asked if he might sing.

"There is nothing to hinder," said Samson.