. An address to the good sense and candour of the people, in behalf of the dealers in corn: with some few observations on a late trial for regrating. years afterwards, life was extremely lax in Frenchprisons ; so long as the prisoners were safe within thewalls but little heed was taken of what they did orwhere they were ; it was sufficient that they were heldfast. It is, therefore, highly probable that the otherprisoners, with La Comans among them, may haveobtained a view of the man, and it is possible that itwas thus that the woman may have seen him malvetu, though this is not altogether cert
. An address to the good sense and candour of the people, in behalf of the dealers in corn: with some few observations on a late trial for regrating. years afterwards, life was extremely lax in Frenchprisons ; so long as the prisoners were safe within thewalls but little heed was taken of what they did orwhere they were ; it was sufficient that they were heldfast. It is, therefore, highly probable that the otherprisoners, with La Comans among them, may haveobtained a view of the man, and it is possible that itwas thus that the woman may have seen him malvetu, though this is not altogether certain, since hisclothes were supposed to have been torn off his backby the crowd when he was arrested the moment afterthe assassination. The story of his crime, however,would have reached their ears, since there was often acertain amount of good-fellowship between the wardersand the prisoners, even down to the days of the Revolu-tion ; in some way the news of the murder would havecertainly filtered through the walls and have aroused adesire in those prisoners, who were often harmless, un-fortunate people, to see so horrible a culprit. But as 302. u The Exposition the Conciergerie was to the end of its use, so itwas in the seventeenth century, and so it had beenfrom far earher ages—a gloomy, darksome hole, itscorridors and passages lighted only by rays oflight that stole through the openings in the day-time, and by miserable lanthorns at night—whenthey were lighted at all.* Consequently, if LaComans ever saw Ravaillac, she probably did so—since he would scarcely be allowed to roam about atlarge—when he was going to his torture, and then onlysaw him indistinctly. Her mistake was, therefore, nota very serious one, as the serving-man of Marguerite deValois, whom La Comans indicated as resembling him,had a dark beard and Ravaillac had a dark red-brownbeard, while the fact that the serving-man was short andpuny and Ravaillac tall and muscular, might, if it werenecessary to do s
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