Richard Cobb
"The box D4 UI 7, in the ,fonds, of the ,justices de paix, of Paris, kept in the Archives de la Seine, entitled ,Basse-GeÃ´le de la Seine, procÃ¨s-verbaux de mort violente (ans IIIâ€”IX),, lists the particulars of 404 persons (there are in fact 405 ,procÃ¨s-verbaux,, but one man is listed twice) who met violent deaths through suicide, accidents, murder, and natural causes. The period covered is from 1 FlorÃ©al Year III (Monday, 20 April 1795) to 26 Fructidor Year IX (Sunday, 13 September 1801); but there are only scattered minutes for the Year III, a year in which mortality rates reached, for the second year in succession, a record figure of 30,000 for Paris, and in which suicides are said to have been particularly numerous, especially among women of the very poor, so that the documentation can only be taken as fully representative for the period October 1795 to mid-September 1801, a span of six years. (...)" - Richard Cobb
Death in Paris, 1795-1801: The Records of the Basse-Geï¿½le de la Seine, Vendï¿½miaire Year IV-Fructidor Year IX