(The official report of Mandat's examination contains five false statements, either through omission or substitution.)] [Footnote 2674: Claretie, "Camille Desmoulins," p.467 (notes of Topino-Lebrun on Danton's trial).

Danton, in the pleadings, says: "I left at 1 o'clock in the morning.

I was at the revolutionary commune and pronounced sentence of death on Mandet, who had orders to fire op the people." Danton in the same place says: "I had planned the 10th of August." It is very certain that from 1 to 7 o'clock in the morning (when Mandat was killed) he was the principal leader of the insurrectional commune.

Nobody was so potent, so overbearing, so well endowed physically for the control of such a conventicle as Danton.
Besides, among the new-comers he was the best known and with the most influence through his position as deputy of the syndic-attorney.

Hence his prestige after the victory and appointment as Minister of Justice.
His hierarchical superior, the syndic-attorney Manuel, who was there also and signed his name, showed himself undoubtedly the pitiful fellow he was, an affected, crazy, ridiculous loud-talker.