Sergent and others told me that I was acting imprudently; that the prisons were not safe."] [Footnote 3179: Granier de Cassagnac,--II.

27.

According to Roch Marcandier their number "did not exceed 300." According to Louvet there were "200, and perhaps not that number." According to Brissot, the massacres were committed by about "a hundred unknown brigands."-- Petion, at La Force (Ibid., 75), on September 6, finds only about a dozen executioners.

According to Madame Roland (II.

35), "there were not fifteen at the Abbaye." Lavalette the first day finds only about fifty killers at the La Force prison.] [Footnote 3180: Mathon de la Varenne, ibid., 137.] [Footnote 3181: Buchez et Roux, XVII.