The things we do!

-- M. du Repaire, body-guard, being
sentry at the railing from two o'clock in the morning, a man passes
his pike through the bars saying, "You embroidered b. . . , your
turn will come before long." M. de Repaire, " retires within the
sentry-box without saying a word to this man, considering the orders
that have been issued not to act."
[43] "Proc?dure Criminelle du Ch?telet." Depositions 82, 170 --
Madame Campan. II. 87. -- De Lavalette, I.33. -- Cf. Bertrand de
Molleville, M?moires."
[44] Duval," Souvenirs de la Terreur," I. 78. (Doubtful in almost
everything, but here he is an eye-witness. He dined opposite the
hair-dresser's, near the railing of the Park of Saint-Cloud.) -- M.
de Lally-Tollendal's second letter to a friend. "At the moment the
King entered his capital with two bishops of his council with him in
the carriage, the cry was heard, "Off to the lamp post with the
bishops!"
[45] De Montlosier, I. 303. -- Moniteur, sessions of the 8th, 9th,
and 10th of October.


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