Thirdly,  Lafayette  says  (Memoirs,  iii.  83-85) :  "  Danton,  whose
receipt  for  100,000  francs  was  in  the  hands  of  Montmorin,
asked  for  Lafayette's  head;  that  was  running  a  great  risk,  but  he
depended  on  the  discretion  of  Lafayette  and  on  his  keeping  a
secret.  For  Lafayette  to  have  spoken  would  have  been  to  have
signed  the  death-warrant  of  Montmorin,  who  had  paid  Danton  in
order  to  moderate  his  anarchic  fury."  And  again  (iv.  328-330),
he  says  of  Danton :  "  He  was  a  vulgar  tribune  and  incapable  of
turning  the  masses  from  evil  by  persuasion  or  by  respect,  but  he
knew  how  to  flatter  their  passions,  &c.  &c.  ...  I  knew  him
from  the  first  week  of  the  Eevolution  in  the  district  of  Cordeliers,
whither  I  had  been  attracted.  After  the  6th  October  he  took
money  from  Montmorin,  whom  he  caused  in  consequence  to  be
assassinated  on  the  2nd  September.  In  connection  with  this
secret  he  said  to  me  once,  '  General,  I  know  you  do  not  know  me,
I  am  more  of  a  Monarchist  than  you.'  ...  I  have  learnt  since
from  the  person  to  whom  Madame  Elizabeth  told  it  that  he  had
received,  about  the  10th  August,  a  considerable  sum  to  give  the
movement  a  direction  in  the  king's  favour,  and,  indeed,  he  got  the
royal  family  sent  to  the  Temple.  He  said  to  a  friend  of  the  king,
*  It  is  I  who  will  save  him  or  kill  him.'  *

Fourthly,  there  is  Brissot  (iv.  193-194).  "Among  the  stipen-
diaries of  Orleans  was  .  .  .  Danton.  I  have  seen  the  receipt  for
500,000  francs  which  were  paid  him  by  Montmorin.  He  was
sold  to  the  court  in  order  to  thrust  the  Revolution  into  the
excesses  which  would  make  it  odious  to  the  great  bulk  of  French-
men."

Fifthly,  Madame  Roland  (who  has  so  much  to  say  against  a
character  so  profoundly  antipathetic  to  her)  has  this  special
passage  on  his  corruption  (Dauban's  edition,  1864,  pp.  254-255):
"He  went  to  Belgium  to  augment  his  wealth,  and  dared  to
admit  a  fortune  of  1,400,000  francs,  to  assume  luxury,"  &c.  &c.
