[30] Armand Gensonné (1758-1793), the friend and confidant of Dumouriez, executed 31 October 1793.—T.
[31] Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), at one time editor of the Moniteur and of the Patriote français, and prime mover in the declaration of war against Austria. He was guillotined on the same day as Gensonné.—T.
[32] The decree ordering the dissolution of the King's Constitutional Guard was voted 29 May 1792.—B.
[33] It was burnt down in 1580.—Author's Note.
[34] Charles de Lorraine, Duc de Mayenne (1554-1611), second son of François Duc de Guise, and head of the League.—T.
[35] A political club connected with the League and called the Sixteen from the number of its leading members, each of whom was put in charge of one of the then sixteen quarters of Paris.—T.
[36] Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) was born either at Geneva or at Boudry, near Neufchâtel, in Switzerland.—T.
[37] Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763-1794), the inventor of the Feast of Reason, self-known as "Anaxagoras Chaumette," and guillotined 13 April 1794.—T.
[38] Méot kept the best tavern in Paris, in the Palais-Royal.—B.
[39] Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante (1754-1820), had been a schoolmaster at Juilly and principal of the Oratorian College at Nantes, when he was sent to the Convention. He became subsequently a Conservative senator under Napoleon, a duke and a peer, and was Minister of Police under the Directory, Napoleon, and Louis XVIII.—T.