[156] Wallon, Tribunal Révolutionnaire, iii. 169, quotes Archives, W. 342, Dossier 641, 1st Part, No. 34.
[157] Fouquier had written a letter to his distant relative Desmoulins, begging for some employment, on August 20, 1792, just after the success of Danton’s party, in which Desmoulins had of course shared. It is by no means dignified and almost servile. See Clarétie, Desmoulins, English edition, p. 318.
[158] This is M. Wallon’s opinion, who gives both versions, and from whom I take so much of this description. See Tribunal Révolutionnaire, iii. 177.
[159] All this appears in the trial of Fouquier.
[160] They are given in Clarétie’s Desmoulins in the Appendix.
[161] See the list of the prisoner’s effects in Clarétie’s Desmoulins.
[162] This gate may be seen to-day just to the right of the great staircase in the court of the Palais de Justice. It has an iron grating before it.
[163] The original of this I take from Clarétie, who quotes P. A. Lecomte, Memorial sur la Révolution Française.
“Lorsqu’arrivés au bords du Phlégéton
Camille Desmoulins, D’Eglantine et Danton,