other citizens "are quite hostile to it."--Similar petitions at Dax,
Chalons-sur-Saone, etc., against the local club.]

[Footnote 1230: "Lettres" (manuscript) of M. Roulle, deputy from
Pontivy, to his constituents (May 1, 1789).]

[Footnote 1231: A rule of the association says: "The object of the
association is to discuss questions beforehand which are to be decided
by the National Assembly,... and to correspond with associations of the
same character which may be formed in the kingdom."]

[Footnote 1232: Gregoires, "Memoires," I. 387.]

[Footnote 1233: Malouet, II. 248. "I saw counselor Duport, who was a
fanatic, and not a bad man, with two or three others like him, exclaim:
'Terror! Terror! What a pity that it has become necessary!'"]

[Footnote 1234: Lafayette, "Memoires" (in relation to Messieurs de
Lameth and their friends).--According to a squib of the day: "What
Duport thinks, Barnave says and Lameth does"--This trio was named
the Triumvirate. Mirabeau, a government man, and a man to whom brutal
disorder was repugnant, called it the Triumgueusat. (A trinity of shabby
fellows)]

[Footnote 1235: Moniteur, V.212, 583. (Report and speech of Dupont de
Nemours, sessions of July 31 and September 7, 1790.)--Vagabonds and
ruffians begin to play their parts in Paris on the 27th of April, 1789
(the Reveillon affair).--Already on the 30th of July, 1789, Rivarol
wrote: "Woe to whoever stirs up the dregs of a nation! The century
Enlightenment has not touched the populace!"--In the preface of his
future dictionary, he refers to his articles of this period: "There may
be seen the precautions I took to prevent Europe from attributing to the
French nation the horrors committed by the crowd of ruffians which
the Revolution and the gold of a great personage had attracted to
the capital."--"Letter of a deputy to his constituents," published by
Duprez, Paris, in the beginning of 1790 (cited by M. de Segur, in the
Revue de France, September 1, 1880). It relates to the maneuvers for
forcing a vote in favor of confiscating clerical property. "Throughout
All-Saints' day (November 1, 1789), drums were beaten to call together
the band known here as the Coadjutors of the Revolution. On the morning
of November 2, when the deputies went to the Assembly, they found the
cathedral square and all the avenues to the archbishop's palace, where
the sessions were held, filled with an innumerable crowd of people. This
army was composed of from 2