"Danton leads all; Robespierre is his puppet; Marat holds his torch and dagger."] [Footnote 3149: Madame Roland "Memoires," II.

19 (note by Roland) .-- Ibid., 21, 23, 24.

Monge says: "Danton wants to have it so; if I refuse he will denounce me to the Commune and at the Cordeliers, and have me hung." Fournier's commission to Orleans was all in order, Roland probably having signed it unawares, like those of the commissioners sent into the departments by the executive council (Cf.

Mortimer-Ternaux, III.

368.)] [Footnote 3150: The person who gives me the following had it from the king, Louis Philippe, then an officer in Kellerman's corps: On the evening of the battle of Valmy the young officer is sent to Paris to carry the news.