Note 312 — BOOK IX[283]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Chateaubriand is wrong. The notice of Ambroise, a comic opera by Monvel and Nicolas Dalayrac occcurs in the Gazette nationale, ou Le Moniteur universel of the 22nd of January 1793! but the report of the execution of Louis XVI. appears in the issue of the next day, Wednesday 23 January, two days after the tragedy took place. Immediately after the report comes this paragraph:
"That excellent patriot, Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau, member of the Convention, was assassinated on Sunday at a tavern-keeper's, in the Palais ci-devant Royal, by a former body-guard called Paris. The details of the crime were communicated to the National Convention; they will be found in the report of Monday's sitting."
This report of "Monday's sitting" appears in the following Thursday's Moniteur.—T.