in one's opinion he flew into a rage and foamed at the mouth."” Following the 10th of August, Marat began to incite the population to massacre the Royalists and Swiss who had been imprisoned. Meeting in secret, Marat and his supporters plotted the details of the massacres of September. For the purpose of robbery, a number of wealthy people were to also be incarcerated. Many of their rivals were added to the list. All of these unfortunate victims were to be imprisoned and put to death without a trial of any kind. The difficulty in finding enough hands to murder hundreds of prisoners necessitated liberating a number of thieves and murderers from prison. Female malefactors were sometimes released to make up an audience to applaud and incite the murderers to further acts of violence. prisons, the vast majority were from the common people. This list included many young boys, twelve years old and up, who were street urchins detained for minor offenses. At a house of corrections for women, thirty-five victims perished, some being girls ten to fifteen years of age. Among the victims there were also more than two- hundred priests. These were humble, saintly men, many white haired with age, who had spent their lives in doing good. They met their death with a heroic resignation unsurpassed even by the martyrs of the early church. 46 The Secret Side of History Out of well over a thousand victims from nine