Here and there on it are to be traced those sinister names that for the first time emerged from obscurity.

These names are like the hieroglyphics of the ancient monuments.

The acts of men now famous, who signed names then unknown and obscure, give to these signatures a retrospective signification, and the eye dwells with curiosity on these characters that seem to contain in a few marks the mystery of a long life--the whole horror of an epoch.

Here is the name of _Chaumette, then a medical student, Rue Mazarine, No.9_.

There _Maillard_, the president of the fearful massacres of September.