[5] See the preceding work in this series, "The Blacksmith's Hammer."
[6] The old palace of the Bourbons, now abandoned to cheap lodgings and hucksters' booths.
[7] All the persons and facts cited in this story as of historic importance, are authentic.
[8] For an exactly parallel line of conduct, see that of Abbot Le Roy, at the time of the invasion of Reveillon's paper factory in the St. Antoine suburb, as given in the admirable History of the Revolution by Louis Blanc. We are glad to render here this public testimony of our sympathy and old friendship for an illustrious campaign in exile.
[9] Mirabeau's death was for long attributed to poison.
[10] The correspondence found at the Tuileries, in the Iron Cupboard, on August 10, 1792, and the correspondence of the Count of Lamark, published in our day, establish superabundantly the treason of Mirabeau.
[11] See "The Abbatial Crosier," volume eight in this series.
[12] See "The Infant's Skull," volume eleven in this series.
[13] As each year started anew on the autumnal equinox, the dates varied a little from those here given. Those given are for the first year of the era. September, 1792, to September, 1793.
[14] The name for the paper notes issued by the Convention.