Rusilion was one of the few, possibly the only one, of the defendants in the Moreau/Georges trial who made a clear statement of admission and did not go back on it.

It was noteworthy that all those who talked freely to the police were reprieved, also those with a 'de' in front of their name. 'Born in the Morbihan' was an automatic death sentence: low-ranking Chouans who knew nothing of any conspiracy and hadn't even been in Paris went to the scaffold while the political agents escaped with their lives.

Susan