Joseph Paulin died in 1842; his wife survived him twenty years, dying at last in the Rue Croix de Fer at the age of ninety-one.  Up to the time of her death she received a small pension from the town.  As to Licquet, he lived to one hundred—­but without any decoration—­in his lodging in the Rue Saint-Le.  The old man’s walks in the streets which were so familiar to him, must have been rich in memories.  The “Gros-Horloge” under which the tumbrils had passed; the “Vieux-Marche,” where so many heads had fallen which the executioner owed to him; le Faubourg Bouvreuil, where the graves of his victims grew green; Bicetre, the old conciergerie, the palace itself, which he could see from his windows,—­all these objects must have called up to his mind painful recollections.  The certificate of his death, which bears the date February 7, 1855, simply describes him as an ex-advocate.

Querelle, whose denunciation ruined Georges Cadoudal, was set at liberty at the end of a year.  Besides his life, Desmarets had promised him the sum of 80,000 francs to pay his debts with, but as they were in no hurry to hand him the money, his creditors lost patience and had him shut up in Sainte-Pelagie.  Desmarets at last decided to pay up, and Querelle was sent to Piemont, where he lived on a small pension from the government.  In 1814 we find those of Georges’ accomplices who had escaped the scaffold—­among whom were Hozier and Amand Gaillard,—­scattered among the prisons of the kingdom, in the fortresses of Ham, Joux, and Bouillon.  Others who had been sent under surveillance forty leagues from Paris and the seacoast, reappeared, ruined by ten years of enforced idleness, threats and annoyances.  Vannier the lawyer died in prison at Brest; Bureau de Placene, who was let out of prison at the Restoration, assisted Bruslard in the distribution of the rewards granted by the King to those who had helped on the good cause.  Allain, who had been condemned to death for contumacy by the decree of Rouen, gave himself up in 1815.  He was immediately set free, and a pension granted him.  Seeing which, Joseph Buquet, who was in the same predicament, presented himself, and being acquitted immediately, returned to Donnay, dug up the 43,000 francs remaining over from the sum stolen in 1807, and lived “rich and despised.”  As to the girl Dupont, who had been Mme. Acquet’s confidante, she was kept in prison till 1814.  Being released on the King’s return she immediately took refuge in a convent where she spent the rest of her life.

Mme. de Vaubadon, who lived disguised under the name of Tourville, which had been her mother’s, died in misery in a dirty lodging-house at Belleville on January 23, 1848; her body was borne on the following day to the parish cemetery, where the old register proves that no one bought a corner of ground for her where she could rest in peace.  M. de Vaubadon had died eight years previously, having pardoned her some years before.