took no steps to prevent them, although they had notice given them in time.”
[70] “Archives Nationales,” F7, 3223. Letters of M. Brisson, commissioner of the naval classes of Souillac, February 2, 1792; of the directory of the department, March 14, 1792. – Petition of the brothers Barrié (with supporting documents), October 11, 1791. – Letter of the prosecuting attorney of the department, April 4, 1792. Report of the commissioners sent to the district of Figeac, January 5, 1792. Letter of the administrators of the department, May 27, 1792.
[71] “Archives Nationales,” F7, 3217. Official reports of the commissioners of the department of Gard, April 1, 2, 3, and 6, 1792, and letter of April 6. One land-owner is taxed 100,000 francs. – Ibid., F7, 3223. Letter of M Dupin, prosecuting attorney of l’Hérault, February 17 and 26, 1792. “At the chateau of Pignan, Madame de Lostanges has not one complete piece of furniture left. The cause of these disturbances is religious passion. Five or six nonjuring priests had retreated to the chateau,” – Moniteur, sitting of April 16, 1792. Letter from the directory of the department of Gard. – De Dampmartin, II, 85. At Uzès, fifty or sixty men in masks invade the ducal chateau at ten o’clock in the evening, set fire to the archives, and the chateau is burnt.
[72] “Archives Nationales,” F7, 3196. Official statements of Augier and Fabre, administrators of the Bouches-de-Rhône, sent to Avignon, May 11, 1792. (The reappearance of Jourdan, Mainvielle, and the assassins of La Glacière took place April 29.)
[73] De Dampmartin, II. 63. Portalis, “Il est temps de parler” (pamphlet), passim. “Archives Nationales,” F7, 7090. Memorandum of the commissioners of the municipal administration of Arles, year IV., Nivôse 22.
[74] Mercure de France, May 19, 1792. (Sitting of May 4.). Petition of forty inhabitants of Avignon at the bar of the Legislative Assembly. – “Archives Nationales,” F7, 3195. Letter of the royal commissioners at the tribunal of Apt, March 15, 1792; official report of the municipality, March 22; Letters of the Directory of Apt, March 23 and 28, 1792.
[75] Large cellar where the ice collected during the winter was kept for later use. (SR.)
[76] “Archives Nationales,” ibid. Letter of Amiel, president of the bureau of conciliation at Avignon, October 28, 1792, and other letters to the minister Roland. – F7, 3217, Letter of the Justice of the Peace at Roque-Maure, October 31, 1792.
[77] “Archives Nationales,” F7, 3246. Official report of the municipality of Metz (with supporting documents), May 15, 1792.
[78] “Mémoires de l’Abbé Baton,” one of the priests of the third convoy (a bishop is appointed from Séez), p. 233.
[79] “Archives Nationales” F7, 3225. Letter of citizen Bonnemant, commissioner to minister Roland, September 11, 1792.
End of The French Revolution, Volume 1.