"I begged them not to enter the drawing-room, so as not to disturb the poor sufferer.

The sight of a woman in a swoon and pleasing in appearance affected them, and they at once withdrew, leaving me alone with her."-- Beaulieu, "Essais," I.108.

(Regarding the two Abbaye butchers he meets in the house of Journiac-de-Saint-Meard, and who chat with him while issuing him with a safe-conduct): "What struck me was to detect generous sentiments through their ferocity, those of men determined to protect any one whose cause they adopted."] [Footnote 3198: Weber, II.

265, 348.] [Footnote 3199: Sicard, 101.

Billaud-Varennes, addressing the slaughterers .-- Ibid.75.