[17] Danton, Homme d’État, p. 29.
[18] See “Notes of Courtois de l’Aube” in Clarétie’s “Desmoulins.”
[19] Danton, Homme d’État, p. 30.
[20] An excellent reading is afforded by the Avocat aux Conseils du Roi of M. Bos (Machal & Billaud, Paris, 1881), quoted more than once in this work.
[21] Since 1728 membership of this body had been purchasable and hereditary; a striking example of how wrongly society was moving.
[22] See [Appendix VI.]
[23] M. Bos, quoted above.
[24] Ibid., p. 520.
[25] See [Appendix V.]
[26] See [Appendix II.] on Danton’s lodgings in Paris.