Prudhomme well says that the story of the prison plot, so scandalously circulated during the Reign of Terror, appears for the first time on the 2d of September.

The same report was spread through the rural districts.

At Gennevilliers, a peasant while lamenting the massacres, said to Malouet: "It is, too, a terrible thing for the aristocrats to want to kill all the people by blowing up the city" (Malouet, II.

244).] [Footnote 3121: Official reports of the commune, Aug.

11.] [Footnote 3122: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.446.List of the section commissioners sitting at the Hotel-de-ville, Aug.