rectory of
the Bouches-du-Rhone, May 21, 1791.--Deliberations of the Avignon
municipality, associated with the notables and the military committee,
May 15: "The enormous expense attending the pay and food for the
detachments.. .forced contributions... What is most revolting is that
those who are charged with the duty arbitrarily tax the inhabitants,
according as they arc deemed bad or good patriots... The municipality,
the military committee, and the club of the Friends of the Constitution
dared to make a protest; the proscription against them is their reward
for their attachment to the French constitution.]

[Footnote 2445: Letter of M. Boulet, formerly physician in the French
military hospitals and member of the electoral assembly, May 21.]

[Footnote 2446: "Archives Nationales," DXXIv. 16-23, No.3. Narrative of
what took place yesterday, August 21, in the town of Avignon.--Letters
by the mayor, Richard, and two others, Aug. 21.--Letter to the president
of the National Assembly, Aug.22 (with five signatures, in the name of
200 families that had taken refuge in the Ile de la Bartelasse).]

[Footnote 2447: "Archives Nationales," DXXIV. 3.--Letter of M. Laverne,
for M. Canonge, keeper of the Mont-de-Piete. (The electoral assembly of
Vaucluse and the juge-de-paix had forbidden him to give this box into
any other hands.)--Letters of M. Mulot, mediating commissioner, Gentilly
les Sorgues, Oct. 14, 15, 16, 1791.--Letter of M. Laverne, mayor, and
the municipal officers, Avignon, Jan. 6, 1792.--Statement of events
occurring at Avignon, Oct. 16, 17, and 18 (without a signature, but
written at once on the spot).--Official rapport of the provisional
administrators of Avignon, Oct. 16.--Certified copy of the notice
found posted in Avignon in different places this day, Oct. 16 (probably
written by one of the women of the lower class and showing what the
popular feeling was).--A letter written to M. Mulot, Oct. 13' already
contains this phrase: "Finally, even if they delay stopping their
robberies and pillage, misery and the miserable will still remain
"--Testimony of Joseph Sauton, a chasseur in the paid guard of Avignon,
Oct. 17 (an eye-witness of what passed at the Cordeliers).]

[Footnote 2448: Andre. II.62. Deposition of la Ratapiole.--Death of the
girl Ayme and of Mesdames Niel et Crouzet.--De Dampmartin, II. 2.]

[Footnote 2449: "Archives Nationales," DXXIV, 3. Report on the events
of Oct. 16: "Two sworn priests were kill