Maillard et son tribunal. Stanislas Marie Maillard

(i 763-1 794) first appears in the history of the Révolution at the capture of the Bastille, where he handed the draft of the capitulation to Hulin, and was one of those who arrested de Launay. In October, he led the wcmen of Paris to Versailles. During the September massacres he proposed the formation of a popular tribunal, to investigate the causes of imprisonment of those incarcerated in the Abbaye, etc., and to décide upon their fate. He was named président of the tribunal, composed of twelve judges. This court sat in the Abbaye, and before it the prisoners were led and interrogated, then discharged, or delivered over to the executioners. Maillard took an active part against the Girondins, and was commissioned, by the Comité de Sûreté Générale, to organize a revolutionary police. He took side with the Hébertistes, and was violently attacked by the Dantonists, and his arrest ordered. The order was not carriedout, as Maillard was then sufïering from consumption, of which he shortly after died.

28. Sur le registre d^écrou, in the gaoler's book, or prison register.

29. À un autre ^ another ! An ellipticaL expression, équivalent to, it is the tum of another. It is my turn, is : c'est à moi ; it is your tum, c'est à vous. Hence {c'est) à un autre, it is another's turn.

30. Le Comité civil des Quatre- Nations. Cardinal Mazarin, by his will, founded a collège called des Quatre-Nations , for the gratuitous instruction of sixty noblemen's children, from the four provinces united to France during his ministry : Pignerol, Alsace, the Netherlands, Rousillon and Conflans. The collège lasted until the Révolution, when it was used as a prison. It afterward became, in 1806, the seat of the Institut. In the church, where was formerly the tomb of Mazarin (now at Versailles), the French Academy holds its sessions.