At the first interview Saint-Just said to Schneider: "Why use so much ceremony?
You know the crimes of the aristocrats?
In the twenty-four hours taken for one investigation you might have twenty-four condemned."] [Footnote 32151: "Journal de marche du sergent Fricasse," p.34.
(Narrative by Marshal Soult.)] [Footnote 32152: Cf.

in the Bible, the story of Ahasuerus who, out of respect for his own majesty, can-not retract the order he has issued against the Jews, but he turns the difficulty by allowing them to defend themselves.] [Footnote 32153: Mallet-Dupan, II., 47.] [Footnote 32154: Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire," XVII.-Marcelin Boudet, "Les Conventionnels d'Auvergne," 269 .-- Moniteur, Brumaire 27, year III., report by Cales.] [Footnote 32155: Paris, "Histoire de Joseph Lebon," I., 371; II., 341, 344.-De Martel, "Fouche," 153 .-- Berryat Saint-Prix, 347, 348.] [Footnote 32156: Berryat Saint-Prix, 390 .-- Ibid., 404.

(On Soubrie, executioner at Marseilles, letter of Lazare Giraud, public prosecutor): "I put him in the dungeon for having shed tears on the scaffold, in executing the anti-revolutionists we sent to be executed."] [Footnote 32157: Moniteur, XVIII., 413.

(Session of the Convention, letter of Lequinio and Laignelot, Rochefort, Brumaire 17, year II.) "We have appointed the patriot Anse guilloteneur and we have invited him, in dining with us, to come and assume his prescribed powers, and water them with a libation in honor of the Republic."-- Paris, II., 72.] [Footnote 32158: Marcelin Boudet, 270.

(Testimony of Bardaneche de Bayonne.)] [Footnote 32159: Guil1on, "Histoire de la ville de Lyons pendant la Revolution," II., 427, 431, 433.] [Footnote 32160: "Memoire du Citoyen Freron," (in the Barriere collection,) p.357.