elected representative of the nobility, and thirteen consuls of
the leading towns.--Mercure de France, Oct. 15, 1791 (letter from an
inhabitant of the Comtat).--There were no bodies of militia in the
Comtat; the privileges of nobles were of little account. Nobody had the
exclusive right to hunt or fish, while people without property could own
guns and hunt anywhere.]

[Footnote 2438: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3272. Letter of M. Pelet de
la Lozere, prefect of Vaucluse; to the Minister, year VIII. Germinal
30.--Ibid., DXXIV. 3. Letter of M. Mulot, one of the mediating
commissioners, to the Minister, Oct. 10, 1791. "What a country you have
sent me to! It is the land of duplicity. Italianism has struck its roots
deep here, and I fear that they are very hardy."]

[Footnote 2439: The details of these occurrences may be found in Andre
and in Soulier, "Histoire de la Revolution Avignonaise." The murder of
their seven principal opponents, gentlemen, priests and artisans,
took place June 11, 1790.--"Archives Nationales," DXXIV. 3. The
starting-point of the riots is the hostility of the Jansenist Camus,
deputy to the Constituent Assembly. Several letters, the first from
April, 1790, may be found in this file, addressed to him from the
leading Jacobins of Avignon, Mainvielle, Raphel, Richard, and the rest,
and among others the following (3 July, 1790): "Do not abandon your work,
we entreat you. You, sir, were the first to inspire us with a desire to
be free and to demand our right to unite with a generous nation, from
which we have been severed by fraud."--As to the political means and
enticements, these are always the same. Cf., for instance, this letter
of a protege, in Avignon, of Camus, addressed to him July 13, 1791: "I
have just obtained from the commune the use of a room inside the Palace,
where I can carry on my tavern business.. My fortune is based on your
kindness... what a distance between you and myself!"]

[Footnote 2440: "Archives Nationales," DXXIV. 3. Report on the events of
Oct.10, 1791.--Ibid., F7, 3197. Letter of the three commissioners to the
municipality of Avignon, April 21, and to the Minister, May 14, 1791.
"The deputies of Orange certify that there were at least 500 French
deserters in the Avignon army. "--In the same reports, May 21 and June
8: "It is not to be admitted that enrolled brigands should establish in
a small territory, surrounded by France on all sides, the most dangerous
school of briganda