CHAPTER XXVIII.
[1] We learn from Dr. Moore that there was a leader with five subaltern officers and one hundred and fifty rank and file in each gallery of the chamber; that the wages of the latter were from two to three francs a day; the subaltern had ten francs, the leaders fifty. The entire expense was about a thousand francs a day, a sum which strengthens the suspicion that the pay-master (originally, at least) was the Duc d'Orléans.—DR. MOORE'S View of the Causes, etc., of the French Revolution, i., p. 425.
[2] Mirabeau et La Marck, ii., p. 47.
[3] Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 352.
[4] Marie Antoinette to Mercy, Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 355.
[5] Ibid., i., p. 365.
[6] Arneth, p. 140.
[7] It is remarkable that he, like one or two of the Girondin party, belonged by birth to the Huguenot persuasion, and Marat had studied medicine at Edinburgh.
[8] The Marquise de Brinvilliers had been executed for poisoning several of her own relations in the reign of Louis XIV.
[9] Madame de Campan, ch. xvii.; Chambrier, ii., p. 12.
[10] He said to La Marck, "Aucun homme seul ne sera capable de ramener les Français an bon sens, le temps seul peut rétablir l'ordre dans les esprits," etc., etc.— Mirabeau et La Marck, i., p. 147.
[11] Feuillet de Conches, i., p, 376.
[12] Marie Antoinette to Leopold, date December 11th, 1790, Arneth, p. 143.