matillion

Updated: May 10, 2025

There was a man named Matillion, charged by the Central Committee to do anything or to burn anything to prevent their advance. A wild, demon-like dance was led by three women who had done duty all day as pétroleuses, Florence, Aurore, and Marie. Marie had been publicly thanked at the Hôtel-de-Ville for sending a cannonball through one of the statues before the Chamber of Deputies.

Elizabeth Latimer - France in the Nineteenth Century