text:  Legrand then trembling and terrified retracted his former deposition and declared that he was not certain he had seen Lesurques on the 8th Floreal but that he had altered his book in order to give more probability to the declaration he had determined to make in his friend's favour--of whose innocence he was so assured that it was only the conviction that he was accused erroneously which made him perjure himself to save that innocent head