18, 19, 20 .-- On the 20th of August the commune summons before it and examines the Venetian Ambassador.

"A citizen claims to be heard against the ambassador, and states that several carriages went out of Paris in his name.

The name of this citizen is Chevalier, a horse-shoer's assistant...

The Council decrees that honorable mention be made of the affidavits brought forward in the accusation." On the tone of these examinations read Weber ("Memoires," II.

245), who narrates his own.] [Footnote 3137: Buchez et Roux, XVII.215.Narration by Peltier .-- In spite of the orders of the National Assembly the affair is repeated on the following day, and it lasts from the 19th to the 31st of August, in the evening .-- Moore, Aug.31.The stupid, sheep-like vanity of the bourgeois enlisted as a gendarme for the sans-culottes is here well depicted.