Volume 3 (of 6) 29/46 "This pillaging has lasted three days, Jan. 22, 23 and 24, and we expect from hour to hour similar riots still more terrible."] [Footnote 2521: Mercier (" Tableau de Paris") had already noticed before the Revolution this habit of the Parisian workman, especially among the lowest class of workmen.] [Footnote 2522: Mortimer-Ternaux, 1.346 (letter of June 21, 1792).] [Footnote 2523: Buchez et Roux, VIII. 25 (session of the National Assembly, Nov.10, 1790). Petition presented by Danton in the name of the forty-eight sections of Paris.] [Footnote 2524: Buchez et Roux, XIV. |