[97] Révolutions de France et de Brabant, No. 82.
[99] On June 24.
[100] I follow Aulard in this as to the general scheme, and largely as to authorities also.
[101] Aulard is my authority for the fact that the actual text of this second petition disappeared in 1871, when the Hotel de Ville was burnt by the Commune, but that Berchez saw it before that event, and carefully drew up a list of the principal names. Danton is not among them.
[102] The Courrier Français of July 22 asks if “the man in holland trousers and a grey waistcoat was Danton,” but says nothing more.
[103] See the letter published in the Rev. Française, April 1893, p. 325.
[104] Orateur du Peuple, viii. No. 16. Not over-trustworthy.
[105] Possibly later. Beugnot seems to speak as though Danton was still in Troyes on at least as late a date as the 6th of August (Mémoires, i. pp. 249-250).
[106] Since writing the above I notice that M. Aulard in the same article quotes a remark of Danton’s in the Electoral Assembly of September 10th. This is taken from the procès verbal of the Assembly, and M. Charavay communicated it to M. Aulard.