It is well to state that I saw some deputies come into this large hall, also former marquises, counts and knights of the poniard of the ancient regime...

but I confess that I cannot remember the true names of these former nobles....

for the devil himself could not recognize those bastards, disguised like sans-culottes."] [Footnote 3217: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 237, 308.

(July 5 and 14, 1793.)--Moniteur, XIX., 716.

(Ventose 26, year II.) Danton secures the passage of a decree "that nothing but prose shall be heard at the bar." Nevertheless, after his execution, this sort of parade begins again.
On the 12th of Messidor, "a citizen admitted to the bar reads a poem composed by him in honor of the success of our arms on the Sambre." (Moniteur, XVI., 101.)] [Footnote 3218: Moniteur, XVIII.