M. Fossin, deputy from Arles.]

[Footnote 2433: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3195. Dispatch of M. Merard,
royal commissioner at the district court of Apt, Apt, March 15, 1792
(with official report of the Apt municipality and debates of the
district, March 13).--Letter of M. Guillebert, syndic-attorney of
the district March 5.. (He has fled. )--Dispatches of the district
Directory, March 23 and 28. "It must not be supposed for a moment that
either the court or the juge-de-paix will take the least notice of this
circumstance. One step in this direction would, in a week, bring 10,000
men on our hands."]

[Footnote 2434: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3195. Letter of the district
Directory of Apt, March 28. "On the 26th of March 600 armed men,
belonging to the communes of Apt, Viens, Rustrel, etc. betook themselves
to St.-Martin-de-Castillon and, under the pretense of restoring
order, taxed the inhabitants, lodging and feeding themselves at their
charge"--The expeditions extend even to the neighboring departments, one
of them March 23, going to Sault, near Forcalquier, in the Upper-Alps.]

[Footnote 2435: Ib., F7, 3195. On the demand of a number of petitioning
soldiers who went to Aries on the 22d of March, 1792, the department
administration passes an act (September, 1793) granting them each
forty-five francs indemnity. There are 1,916 of them, which makes
86,200 francs "assessed on the goods and property of individuals for the
authors, abettors, and those guilty of the disturbances occasioned by
the party of Chiffonists in the commune of Arles." The municipality of
Aries designates fifty-one individuals, who pay the 86,200 livres,
plus 2,785 francs exchange, and 300 francs for the cost of sojourn and
delays.--Petition of the ransomed, Nov.21, 1792.]

[Footnote 2436: Ib., F7, 3165. Official report of the Directory on the
events which occurred in Aix, April 27, 28, and 29, 1792.]

[Footnote 2437: Michelet, "Histoire de la Revolution Francaise," III.56
(according to the narratives of aged peasants).--Mercure de France,
April 30, 1791 (letter from an inhabitant of the Comtat).--All public
dues put together (octrois and interest on the debt) did not go beyond
800,000 francs for 126,684 inhabitants. On the contrary, united
with France, it would pay 3,793,000 francs.--Andre, "Histoire de la
Revolution Avignonaise," I. 61.--The Comtat possessed representative
institutions, an armed general assembly, composed of three bishops,
the