The case of Girard Toussaint, notary at Paris, who "fell under the sword of the law, Thermidor 9, year II." This Girard, who was very liberal early in the revolution, was president of his section in 1789, but, after the 10th of August, he had kept quiet.

The committee of the section of the "Amis de la Patrie," "considering that citizen Girard....

came forward only at the time when the court and Lafayette prevailed against the sans-culottes;" that, "since equality was established by the Revolution he has deprived his fellow citizens of his knowledge, which, in a revolution, is criminal, unanimously agree that the said citizen is "suspect" and order "him to be sent to the Luxembourg."] [Footnote 2118: Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile du clerge," IV., 131, 135.

(Orders issued by Dartigoyte and de Pinet).--"Recueil de pieces authentiques serrant a l'histoire de la revolution a Strasbourg." Vol.

I.p.230.