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Indeed it drew a curious picture of the state of public feeling in France . It spoke of the Queen , of the actress Rose Thévenin , of the Revolutionary Tribunal and a host of confidential remarks emanating from that worthy , Brotteaux des Ilettes , were repeated in it . Having read to the end and restored the missive to his pocket , he stood hesitating a few moments ; then , like a man who has made up his mind and says to himself `` the sooner the better , '' he turned his steps to the Tuileries and found his way into the antechamber of the Committee of General Security . * * * * * The same day , at three o'clock of the afternoon , Évariste Gamelin was seated on the jurors ' bench along with fourteen colleagues , most of whom he knew , simple-minded , honest , patriotic folks , savants , artists or artisans , -- a painter like himself , an artist in black-and-white , both men of talent , a surgeon , a cobbler , a _ ci-devant _ marquis , who had given high proofs of patriotism , a printer , two or three small tradesmen , a sample lot in a word of the inhabitants of Paris . There they sat , in the workman 's blouse or bourgeois coat , with their hair close-cropped _ à la Titus _ or clubbed _ à la catogan _ ; there were cocked-hats tilted over the eyes , round hats clapped on the back of the head , red caps of liberty smothering the ears . Some were dressed in coat , flapped waistcoat and breeches , as in olden days , others in the _ carmagnole _ and striped trousers of the sansculottes . Wearing top-boots or buckled shoes or sabots , they offered in their persons every variety of masculine attire prevalent at that date .