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  property it attacks proprietors; and completes plunder with
  proscriptions。
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  Notes:
  '1' The expression is that of Jean Bon Saint…André to Mathieu Dumas;
  sent to re…establish tranquillity in Montauban (1790): 〃The day of
  vengeance; which we have been awaiting for a hundred years; has
  come!〃
  '2' De Dampmartin; I。  187 (an eye…witness)。
  '3' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3223 and 3216。  Letters of M。 de
  Bouzols; major general; residing at Montpellier; May 21; 25; 28;
  1790。
  '4' Mary Lafon; 〃Histoire d'une Ville Protestante 〃。(with original
  documents derived from the archives of Montauban)。
  '5' Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 2216。  Procés…verbal of the
  Municipality of N?mes and report of the Abbé de Belmont。   …  Report
  of the Administrative commissioners; June 28; 1790。   …  Petition of
  the Catholics; April 20。   …  Letters of the Municipality; the
  commissioners; and M。 de Nausel; on the events of May 2 and 3。   …
  Letter of M。 Rabaut Saint…Etienne; May 12  …  Petition of the widow
  Gas; July 30。   …  Report (printed) of M。 Alquier; February 19;
  1791。  …  Memoir (printed) of the massacre of the Catholics at
  N?mes; by Froment (1790)。   …  New address of the Municipality of
  N?mes; presented by M。 de Marguerite; mayor and deputy (1790);
  printed。  Mercure de France; February 23; 1791。
  '6' The petition is signed by 3;127 persons; besides 1560 who put a
  cross declaring that they could not write。  The counter…petition of
  the club is signed by 262 persons。
  '7' This last item; stated in M。 Alquier's report; is denied by the
  municipality。  According to it; the red rosettes gathered around the
  bishop's quarters had no guns。
  '8' An insurrection in the sixteenth century; when the Protestants
  fired on the Catholics on St。  Michael's Day。…'TR。'
  '9' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3216。  Letter of M。 de Lespin; Major
  at N?mes; to the commandant of Provence; M de Perigord; July 27;
  1790: 〃The plots and conspiracies which were attributed to the
  vanquished party; and which; it was believed; would be discovered in
  the depositions of the four hundred men in prison; vanish as the
  proceedings advance。  The veritable culprits are to be found among
  the informers。
  '10' Buchez and Roux; III。  240 (Memorandum of the Ministers;
  October 28; 1789)。 … 〃 Archives Nationales;〃 D; XXIX。  3。
  Deliberation of the Municipal council of Vernon (November 4; 1789)
  '11' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 KK; 1105。  correspondence of M。 de
  Thiard; November 4; 1789。   …  See similar occurrences; September 4;
  October 23; November 4 and 19; 1789; January 27 and March 27; 1790
  '12' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3257。  Letter from Gex; May 29;
  1790。   …  Buchez and Roux; VII。  198; 369 (September; October;
  1790)。
  '13' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 H。  1453。  correspondence of M。 de
  Bercheny; Commandant of the four central provinces。  Letters of May
  25; June 11; 19; and 27; 1790。   …  〃 Archives Nationales;〃 D。
  XXIX。  4。  Deliberations of the district administrators of Bourbon…
  Lancy; May 26。
  '14' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 H。  2453。  Minutes of the meeting of a
  dozen parishes in Nivernais; June 4。  〃White bread is to be 2 sous;
  and brown bread 11/2 sous。  Husbandmen are to have 30 sous; reapers
  10 sous; wheelwrights 10 sous; bailiffs 6 sous per league。  Butter
  is to be at 8 sous; meat at 5 sous; pork at 8 sous; oil at 8 sous
  the pint; a square foot of masonry…work 40 sous; a pair of large
  sabots 3 sous。  All rights of pasturage and of forests are to he
  surrendered。  The roads are to be free everywhere; as formerly。  All
  seignorial rents arc to be suppressed。  Millers are to take only one
  thirty…second of a bushel。  The seigneurs of our department are to
  give up all servile holidays and ill…acquired property。  The curé of
  Bièze is simply to say mass at nine o'clock in the morning and
  vespers at two o'clock in the afternoon; in summer and winter; he
  must marry and bury gratis; it being reserved to us to pay him a
  salary。  He is to be paid 6 sous for masses; and not to leave his
  curé except to repeat his breviary and make proper calls on the men
  and women of his parish。  Hats must be had from 3 livres to 30 sous。
  Nails 3 livres the gross。  Curés are to have none but circumspect
  females of fifty for domestics。  Curés are not to go to either fairs
  or markets。  All curés are to he on the same footing as the one at
  Bièze。  There must he no more wholesale dealers in wheat。  Law
  officers who make unjust seizures must return the money。  Farm
  leases must expire on St。  Martin's Day。  M。 le Comte; although not
  there; M。 de Tontenelle; and M。 de Commandant must sign this
  document without difficulty。  M。 de Mingot is formally to resign his
  place in writing: he went away with his servant…woman  …  he even
  missed his mass on the first Friday of the Fête…Dieu; and it is
  supposed that he slept in the woods。  Joiners' wages shall he fixed
  at the same rate as wheelwrights'。  Ox…straps are not to cost over
  40 sous; yokes 10 sous。  Masters must pay one…half of the tailles 。
  Notaries are to take only the half of what they had formerly; as
  well as comptrollers。  The Commune claims the right of protest
  against whatever it may have forgotten in the present article; in
  fact or in law。〃 (It is signed by about twenty persons; several of
  them being mayors and municipal clerks。)
  '15' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 H。 1453。  The same correspondence; May
  29; June 11 and 17; September 15; 1790。 … ibid; F7; 3257。  Letter of
  the municipal authorities of Marsigny; May 3; of the municipal
  officers of Bourbon…Lancy; June 5。  Extract from letters written to
  M。 Amelot; June 1st。
  '16' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3185; 3186。  Letter of the President
  of the Tribunal of the district of Laon; February 8; 1792。
  '17' 〃Archives Nationales F7; 3268。  Procés…verbal and observations
  of the two commissioners sent to étampes September 22…25; 1791。
  '18' 〃Archives Nationales F7; 3265。  The following document; among
  many others; shows the expedients and conceptions of the popular
  imagination。  Petition of several inhabitants of the commune of
  Forges (Seine Inférieure) 〃to the good and incorruptible Minister of
  the Interior〃 (October 16; 1792)。  After three good crops in
  succession; the famine still continues。  Under the ancient régime
  wheat was superabundant; hogs were fed with it; and calves were
  fattened with bread。  It is certain; therefore; that wheat is
  diverted by monopolists and the enemies of the new regime。  The
  farms are too large; let them he divided。  There is too much
  pasture…ground: sow it with wheat。  Compel each farmer and land…
  owner to give a statement of his crop: let the quantity be published
  at the church service; and in case of falsehood let the man be put
  to death or imprisoned; and his grain he confiscated。  Oblige all
  the cultivators of the neighborhood to sell their wheat at Forges
  only; etc。〃
  '19' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3268。  Report of the commissioners
  sent by the department; March 11; 1792 (apropos of the insurrection
  of March 4)。   …  Mortimer…Ternaux; I。  381。
  '20' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3268。  Letters of several mayors;
  district administrators; cultivators of Velizy; Villacoublay; La
  celle…Saint…Cloud; Montigny; etc。  November 12; 1791。   …  Letter of
  M。 de Narbonne; January 13; 1792; of M。 Sureau; justice of the peace
  in the canton of étampes; September 17; 1791。   …  Letter of
  Bruyères…le…Chatel; January 28; 1792。
  '21' A term applied to brigands at this epoch who demand money and
  objects of value; and force their delivery by exposing the soles of
  the feet of their victims to a fire。 …  'TR。'
  '22' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3203。  Letter of the Directory of
  Cher; August 25; 1791。   …  F7; 3240。  Letter of the Directory of
  Haute Marne; November 6; 1791。   …  F7; 3248。  Minutes of the
  meeting of the members of the department of the Nord; March 18;
  1791。   …  F7; 3250。  Minutes of the meeting of the municipal
  officers of Montreuil…sur…Mer; October 16; 1791。   …  F7; 3265。
  Letter of the Directory of Seine Infereure; July 22; 1791。   …  D;
  XXIX。  4。  Remonstrances of the municipalities assembled at Tostes;
  July 21; 1791。   …  Petition; of the municipal officers of the
  districts of Dieppe; Cany; and Caudebec; July 22; 1791。
  '23' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3268 and 3269; passim。
  '24' 〃Archives Nationales;〃 F7; 3268 and 3269; passim。
  Deliberations of the Directory of Seine…et…Oise; September 20; 1791
  (apropos of the insurrection。  September 16; at étampes)。   …
  Letter of Charpentier; president of the district; September 19。   …
  Report of the Department Commissioners; March 11; 1792 (on the
  insurrection at Brunoy; March 4。)  …  Report of the Department
  Commissioners; March 4; 1792 (on the insurrection at Montlhéry;
  February 13 to 20)。 …  Deliberat