Note 9 — BOOK VII[1]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Jacques Roux (d. 1794), was, in 1789, a priest of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, and dubbed himself Preacher to the Sans-Culottes. He was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 15th of January 1794, and committed suicide with a knife on hearing the sentence pronounced.—T.