(an eye witness).

The last of these details are given by him.] [Footnote 33109: Cf.Ed.Fleury, "Baboeuf;" pp.139 and 150.

Through a striking coincidence the party staff is still of the same order in 1796.
Baboeuf estimates his adherents in Paris as "4,000 revolutionaries, 1,500 members of the former authorities, and 1,000 bourgeois gunners," besides soldiers, prisoners, and a police force.

He also recruited a good many prostitutes.

The men who come to him are workmen who pretend to have arsouille in the Revolution and who are ready to repeat the job, provided it is "for the purpose of killing those rich rascals, the monopolizers, merchants, informers, and panaches at the Luxembourg." (Letter of the agent of the Bonne-Nouvelle section, April 13, 1796.)] [Footnote 33110: The proportion, composition and spirit of the party are everywhere the same, especially at Lyons (Guillon de Montleon, "Memoires," and Balleydier, "Histoire du peuple de Lyon,".