[7] For the sake of clearness I do not mention the large class who had purchased fiefs, all technically noble, many practically bourgeois.
[8] Lyons was, of course, a frontier town of the empire, but locally it is the centre of its own country the “Lyonnais.”
[9] All biographers agree. The first publication of the extract from the civil register was obtained by Bougeart in August 1860. It was furnished to him by M. Ludot, the mayor at the time. There is a ridiculous error in the Journal de la Montagne, vol. ii. No. 142, “né à Orchie sur Aube.”
[10] The date is given in the extract mentioned in the preceding note.
[11] See the action of the relatives in [No. VI.] of the Appendix.
[12] Bougeart, p. 12. A Danton, who was presumably the son of this brother, was an inspector of the University under the second Empire.
[13] See [Appendix No. V.]; also Théâtre de l’Ancien Collège de Troyes, Babeau, published by Dufour-Bouquet, Troyes, 1881.
[14] See list of his library, [Appendix VIII.], and his interview with Thomas Payne, at the beginning of [Chapter VII].
[15] Speech of August 13, 1793. Printed in Moniteur of August 15.
[16] M. Béon.