But, encouraged by a glance from the sieur Legendre, he resorted to a hypocritical subterfuge, and addressing the troop, he said: 'Gentlemen, draw up a report, officially stating that I refuse to enter the king's apartments.' The only answer the crowd made, accustomed to divining what Santerre meant, was to hustle the group of honest citizens out of the way."] [Footnote 2549: Depositions of four of the national guard, Lecrosnier, Gosse, Bidault, and Guiboult .-- Reports of Acloque and de Lachesnaye, commanding officers of the legion.--"Chronique des cinquante jours," by Roederer .-- Ibid.

p.65: "I have to state that, during the Convention, the butcher Legendre declared to Boissy d'Anglas, from whom I had it, that the plan was to kill the king."-- Prudhomme, "Crimes de la Revolution," III.43.

"The king was to be assassinated.

We heard citizens all in rags say that it was a pity; he looks like a good sort of a bastard."] [Footnote 2550: Madame Campan, "Memoires," II.212.

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