Léon Belmont: Arrest Warrants Item: Arrest Warrant of Several Escaped French Aristos Who: Léon Belmont Warnings: None Open to: All, but especially Major Hudson and Jacques. Any French Aristos who may be passing the Embassy to read the warrant.
It was tradition to post such notices on the doors of court-rooms, on church noticeboards, wherever educated people might find them and read them to their fellows. But in England things were different. Instead, Léon had a copy of the warrant, filled out by his second aide (as Jacques absent this afternoon with his lady friend) posted to the front door of the Embassy.
Tomorrow, at dawn, he would be in Kent, and at the new abode of Monsieur and Madame Bellanger. And there they would be arrested for crimes against the Republic, of attempting to help their old master and mistress to escape. The Duke and Duchess had not, of course, but they had confessed as to who had helped them leave Paris. And that was all the Committee had needed. And from the Bellangers, he would get the information he needed on the rest of those on his list.
Transcript: In the name of the people of French Republic, we, the undersigned, the representatives of the people and the members of the Committee of Public Safety, here by order that the following nationals of the French state are to be brought and tried in front of their peers and kinsmen and women for the following crimes: treason, blasphemy, negligence of the people of France, aristocracy and negligence of their duties towards the nation of France. [here follows a list of names] Should these individuals resist, those entrusted with the arrest of these individuals is granted whatever leave necessary in order to procure Justice for the innocent and wronged people of the French Republic.