Others wanted to cut off my head, which would have been done if two gendarmes had not kept them back."] [Footnote 31115: Jourdan, 219.] [Footnote 31116: Mehee, 179.] [Footnote 31117: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.558.The same idea is found among the federates and Parisians composing the company of the Egalite, which brought the Orleans prisoners to Versailles and then murdered them.

They explain their conduct by saying that they "hoped to put an end to the excessive expenditure to which the French empire was subject through the prolonged detention of conspirators."] [Footnote 31118: Retif de la Bretonne, 388.] [Footnote 31119: Mehee, 177.] [Footnote 31120: Prudhomme, "Les Crimes de la Revolution." III.

272.] [Footnote 31121: Retif de la Bretonne, 388.

There were two sorts of women at the Salpetriere, those who were banded and young girls brought in the prison.

Hence the two alternatives.] [Footnote 31122: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.295.See list of names, ages, and occupations.] [Footnote 31123: Barthelemy Maurice, "Histoire politique and anecdotique des prisons de la Seine," 329.] [Footnote 31124: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.295.See list of names, ages, and occupations.] [Footnote 31125: The Encyclopedia "QUID" (ROBERT LAFONT, PARIS 1998) advises us that the number of victims killed with "cold steel and clubs" etc total 1395 persons.