J.Claretie, "Camille Desmoulins," p.192.

Desmoulins wrote, a little before the 10th of August: "If the National Assembly thinks that it cannot save the country, let it declare then, that, according to the Constitution, and like the Romans, it hands this over to each citizen.

Let the tocsin be rung forthwith, the whole nation assembled, and every man, as at Rome, be invested with the power of putting to death all well-known conspirators!"] [Footnote 2656: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.182.Decision of the Quinze-Vingt Section, Aug.

4 .-- Buchez et Roux, XVI.

402-410.