gular troops.]

[Footnote 2456: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3224. Speech of M.
Saint-Amans, vice-president of the Directory of Lot-et-Garonne,
to the mayor of Tonneins, April 20 and the letter of the
syndic-attorney-general to M. Roland, minister, April 22: "According
to the principles of the mayor of Tonneins, all resistance to him
is aristocratic, his doctrine being that all property-owners are
aristocrats. You can readily perceive, sir, that he is not one
of them."--Dubois, formerly a Benedictine and now a Protestant
minister.--Act of the Directory against the municipality of Tonneins,
April 13. The latter appeals to the Legislative Assembly. The mayor and
one of the municipal counselors appear in its name (May 19) at the bar
of the Assembly.]

[Footnote 2457: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3198. Letter of M. Debourges,
one of the three commissioners sent by the National Assembly and the
king, Nov. 2, 1791 (apropos of the Marseilles club). "This club has
quite recently obtained from the Directory of the department, on the
most contemptible allegation, an order requiring of M. de Coincy,
lieutenant-general at Toulon, to send the admirable Ernest regiment out
of Marseilles, and M. de Coincy has yielded."]

[Footnote 2458: For instance (Guillon de Montleon, "Memoires pour servir
a l'histoire de Lyon," I. 109), the general in command of the national
guard of this large town in 1792 is Juillard, a poor silk-weaver of the
faubourg of the Grande Cote, a former soldier.]

[Footnote 2459: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3215, affair of Plabennec
(very curious, showing the tyrannical spirit of the Jacobins and the
good disposition at bottom of the Catholic peasantry)--The commune of
Brest dispatches against that of Plabennec 400 men, with two cannon and
commissioners chosen by the club.--Many documents, among them: Petition
of 150 active citizens of Brest, May 16, 1791. Deliberations of the
council-general and commune of Brest, May 17. Letter of the Directory of
the district, May 17 (very eloquent). Deliberations of the municipality
of Plabennec, May 20. Letter of the municipality of Brest to the
minister, May 21. Deliberations of the department Directory, June 13.]

[Footnote 2460: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 376 (session of the Directory
of the Pas-du-Calais, July 4, 1792). The petition, signed by 127
inhabitants of Arras, is presented to the Directory by Robespierre
the younger and Geoffroy. The administrators are treated as impostors