"The Revolution," Vol.p.773.

(Note I., on the situation, in 1806, of the Conventionalists who had survived the revolution.) For instance, Fouche is minister; Jeanbon-Saint-Andre, prefect; Drouet (de Varennes), sub-prefect; Chepy (of Grenoble), commissary-general of the police at Brest; 131 regicides are functionaries, among whom we find twenty one prefects and forty-two magistrates .-- Occasionally, a chance document that has been preserved allows one to catch "the man in the act." ("Bulletins hebdomadaires de la censure, 1810 and 1814," published by M.Thurot, in the Revue Critique, 1871): "Seizure of 240 copies of an indecent work printed for account of M.Palloy, the author.

This Palloy enjoyed some celebrity during the Revolution, being one of the famous patriots of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

The constituent Assembly had conceded to him the ownership of the site of the Bastille, of which he distributed its stones among all the communes.

He is a bon vivant, who took it into his head to write out in a very bad style the filthy story of his amours with a prostitute of the Palais-Royal.