ry meeting of June 13, 1791, canton of Beze (Cote
d'Or). Out of 460 active citizens, 157 are present, and, on the final
ballot, 58.--Ibid., F7, 3235, (January, 1792). Lozerre: "1,000 citizens,
at most, out of 25,000, voted in the primary meetings. At. Saint-Chely,
capital of the district, a few armed ruffians succeed in forming the
primary meeting and in substituting their own election for that of eight
parishes, whose frightened citizens who withdrew from it... At Langogne,
chief town of the canton and district, out of more than 400 active
citizens, 22 or 23 at most--just what one would suppose them to be when
their presence drove away the rest--alone formed the meeting."]

[Footnote 1213: This power, with its gratifications, is thus shown,
Beugnot, I. 140, 147. "On the publication of the decrees of August
4, the committee of surveillance of Montigny, reinforced by all the
patriots of the country, came down like a torrent on the barony of
Choiseul, and exterminated all the hares and partridges... They fished
out the ponds. At Mandres we find, in the best room of the inn, a dozen
peasants gathered around a table decked with tumblers and bottles,
amongst which we noticed an inkstand, pens, and something resembling a
register.--'I don't know what they are about,' said the landlady,
'but there they are, from morning till night, drinking, swearing, and
storming away at everybody, and they say that they are a committee.'"]

[Footnote 1214: Albert Babeau, I. 206, 242.--The first meeting of the
revolutionary committee of Troyes in the cemetery of St. Jules, August,
1789. This committee becomes the only authority in the town, after the
assassination of the mayor, M. Huez (Sept 10, 1790).]

[Footnote 1215: "The French Revolution," Vol.I. pp. 235, 242,
251.--Buchez et Roux, VI, 179.--Guillon de Montleon, "Histoire de la
Ville de Lyon pendant la Revolution," I. 87.--Guadet, "Les Girondins."]

[Footnote 1216: Michelet, "Histoire de la Revolution," II.47.]

[Footnote 1217: The rules of the Paris club state that members must
"labor to establish and strengthen the Constitution, according to the
spirit of the club."]

[Footnote 1218: Mercure de France, Aug.11, 1790.--"Journal de la Societe
des Amis la Constitution," Nov.21, 1790.--Ibid., March, 1791.--Ibid.,
March, 1791.--Ibid., Aug.14, 1791 (speech by Roederer)--Buchez et Roux,
XI. 481.]

[Footnote 1219: Michelet, II. 407.--Moniteur, XII 347 (May 11, 1792),
article by Marie-Jos