Do not be surprised if I write you some day that his unhappy king and his wife are assassinated."."] [Footnote 2518: Retif de la Bretonne, "Nuits de Paris," Vol.

XVI.
(analyzed by Lacroix in "Bibliotheque de Retif de la Bretonne" ) .-- Retif is the man in Paris who lived the most in the streets and had the most intercourse with the low class.] [Footnote 2519: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3276.

Letter from the Directory of Clamecy, March 27, and official report of the civil commissioners, March 31, 1792, on the riot of the raftsmen.

Tracu, their captain, armed with a cudgel ten feet long, compelled peaceful people to march along with him, threatening to knock them down; he tried to get the head of Peynier, the clerk of the Paris dealers in wood.

"I shall have a good supper to-night," he exclaimed "(or the head of that bastard Peynier is a fat one, and I'll stick it in my Pot!")] [Footnote 2520: Letters of Coray, 126.