[27] See Robinet, Danton vie Privée, p. 284.
[28] See [Appendix VI.]
[29] By nature his nose was small. His was one of those faces rarely seen, and always associated with energy and with leadership, whose great foreheads overhang a face that would be small, were it not redeemed by the square jaw and the mouth. Thus Arnault, “une caricature de Socrate.”
[30] I refer to the English reformer who, on taking ship at Bristol, cast his perruque into the water, crying, “I have done with such baubles,” and sailed bald to the New World.
[31] See [Appendix VIII.]
[32] See [Appendix IX.]
[33] From the Almanack Royal of 1788. Dr. Robinet, whose opportunities of information are unique, tells us that he first moved into the Rue des Fossés St. Germains, and later into the Cour du Commerce, some time in 1790. The statement as to the first direction is unaccompanied by any authority, but Dr. Robinet possesses a letter with this address on it; now here the definite information of an official list seems to me of the greatest weight.
[34] See Appendices [II.] and [VII.] Some rooms look on the Rue des Cordeliers, some on the Cour du Commerce.
[35] De Barentin. See [preceding chapter] and [Appendix V.] He became Danton’s client just before the decree that summoned the States-General.
[36] Sécretaire du Sceau.