ly no means of repression." (Mortimer-Ternaux, VII.562,
letter of the deputy Michel to his constituents, May 20.)]

[Footnote 34120: Bergoeing, "Pieces, etc."--Meillan, pp. 39 and 40.--The
depositions are all made by eye witnesses. The propositions for the
massacre were made in the meetings at the town-hall, May 19, 20 and 21,
and at the Cordeliers club May 22 and 23.]

[Footnote 34121: The Jacobins at Lyons plot the same thing (Guilion de
Montleon, 248). Chalier says to the club: "We shall not fail to have 300
noted heads. Get hold of the members of the department, the presidents
and secretaries of the sections, and let us make a bundle of them for
the guillotine; we will wash our hands in their blood." Thereupon, on
the night of May 28 the revolutionary municipality seize the arsenal and
plant cannon on the Hotel-de-ville. The Lyons sections, however, more
energetic than those of Paris, take, up arms and after a terrible fight
they get possession of the Hotel-de-ville. The moral difference
between the two parties is very marked in Gonchon's letters. ("Archives
Nationales," AF, II. 43. letters of Gonchon to Garat, May 31, June 1 and
3.) "Keep up the courage of the Convention. It need not be afraid. The
citizens of Lyons have covered themselves with glory. They displayed the
greatest courage in every fight that took place in various quarters of
the town, and the greatest magnanimity to their enemies, who behaved
most villainously." The municipal body had sent a flag of truce,
pretending to negotiate, and then treacherously opened fire with its
cannon on the columns of the sections, and cast the wounded into the
river. The citizens of Lyons, so often slandered, will be the first
to have set an example of true republican character. Find me a similar
instance, if you can, in the history of revolutions: being victorious
and yet not then to have shed a drop of blood!" They cared for the
wounded, and raised a subscription for the widows and orphans of the
dead, without distinction of party. Cf. Lauvergue, "Histoire du Var,"
175. The same occurs at Toulon (insurrection of the moderates, July 12
and 13, 1793).--At Toulon, as at Lyons, there was no murder after the
victory; only regular trials and the execution of two or three assassins
whose crimes were legally proved.]

[Footnote 34122: Schmidt, I. 335. Report of Perriere, May 29.]

[Footnote 34123: Bergoeing, "Pieces, etc.", p. 195.--Buchez et Roux,
XXVII 296.]

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