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254 .-- According to the royal almanac of 1792 the Paris national guard comprises 32,000 men, divided into sixty battalions, to which must be added the battalions of pikemen, spontaneously organized and composed, especially of the non-active citizens .-- Cf.
in "Les Revolutions de Paris," Prudhomme's Journal, the engravings which represent this sort of procession.] [Footnote 2527: Buchez et Roux, XV.122.Declaration of Lareynie, a volunteer soldier in the Ile Saint-Louis battalion .-- To those which he names I add Huguenin, because on the 20th of June it was his duty to read the petition of the rioters; also Saint-Huruge, because he led the mob with Santerre .-- About Rossignol, Cf.
Dauban, "La Demagogie a Paris," 369 (according to the manuscript memoirs of Mercier du Rocher).
He reaches Fontenay Aug.21, 1793, with the representative Bourbotte, Momoro, commissary-general, three adjutants, Moulins, Hasard, the ex-priest, Grammont, an ex-actor and several prostitutes.
"The prettiest shared her bed with Bourbotte and Rossignol." They lodge in a mansion to which seals are affixed.
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