,
conspirators, etc., while the president, listening to these refinements,
says to his colleagues: "Gentlemen, let us sit down; we can attend to
insults sitting as well as standing."]

[Footnote 2461: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3223. Letter of M. Valery,
syndic-attorney of the department, April 4, 1792.]

[Footnote 2462: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3220. Extract from the
deliberations of the department Directory and letter to the king,
Jan.28, 1792.--Letter of M. Lafiteau, president of the Directory,
Jan. 30. (The mob is composed of from five to six hundred persons. The
president is wounded on the forehead by a sword-cut and obliged to leave
the town.) Feb. 20, following this, a deputy of the department denounces
the Directory as unpatriotic.]

[Footnote 2463: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3223. Letter of M. de Riolle,
colonel of the gendarmerie, Jan. 19, 1792.--"One hundred members of the
club Friends of Liberty" come and request the brigadier's discharge.
On the following day, after a meeting of the same club, "four hundred
persons move to the barracks to send off or exterminate the brigadier."]

[Footnote 2464: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3219. Letter of M. Sainfal,
Toulouse, March 4, 1792.--Letter of the department Directory, March 14.]

[Footnote 2465: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3229. Letter of M. de
Narbonne, minister, to his colleague M. Cahier, Feb. 3, 1792.--"The
municipality of Auch has persuaded the under-officers and soldiers
of the 1st battalion that their chiefs were making preparation to
withdraw."--The same with the municipality and club of the Navarreins.
"All the officers except three have been obliged to leave and send in
their resignations."--F7, 3225. The same to the same, March 8.--The
municipality of Rennes orders the arrest of Col. de Savignac, and four
other officers. Mercure de France, Feb. 18, 1792. De Dampmartin, I. 230;
II. 70 (affairs of Landau, Lauterbourg, and Avignon).]

[Footnote 2466: "'The French Revolution," I. 344 and following
pages. Many other facts could be added to those cited in this
volume.--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3219. Letter of M. Neil,
administrator of Haute-Garonne, Feb. 27, 1792. "The constitutional
priests and the club of the canton of Montestruc suggested to the
inhabitants that all the abettors of unsworn priests and of aristocrats
should be put to ransom and laid under contribution."--Cf. 7, 3193,
(Aveyron), F7, 3271 (Tarn), etc.]

[Footnote 2467: "Archives Nat