hat the people is
sovereign?"]

[Footnote 3211: "Archives Nationales," letter of the public prosecutor,
May 23.--Letters of the administrators of the department, May 22, and 27
(on the events of the 13th of May at Beausset).]

[Footnote 3212: "Archives Nationales," F7 3193 and 3194. Previous
details may be found in these files. This department is one of those in
which the seventh jacquerie is merely a prolongation of the sixth.--Cf.
F7, 3193. Letter of the royal Commissioner at Milhau, May 5, 1791.
"The situation is getting worse; the administrative bodies continue
powerless and without resources. Most of their members are still unable
to enter upon their duties; while the factions, who still rule, multiply
their excesses in every direction. Another house in the country, near
the town, has been burnt; another broken into, with a destruction of the
furniture and a part of the dinner-service, and doors and windows broken
open and smashed; several houses visited, under the pretense of arms or
powder being concealed in them; all that is found with private persons
and dealers not of the factious party is carried off; tumultuous shouts,
nocturnal assemblages, plots for pillage or burning; disturbances caused
by the sale of grain, searches under this pretext in private granaries,
forced prices at current reductions; forty louis taken from a lady
retired into the country, found in her trunk, which was broken into, and
which, they say, should have been in assignats. The police and municipal
officers witnesses of these outrages, are sometimes forced to sanction
them with their presence; they neither dare suppress them nor punish the
well-known authors of them. Such is a brief statement of the disorders
committed in less than eight days."--In relation specially to
Saint-Afrique. Cf. F7, 3194, the letter, among others, of the department
administrator, march 29, 1792.]

[Footnote 3213: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3193. Extract from the
registers of the clerk of the juge-de-paix of Saint-Afrique, and report
by the department commissioners, Nov. 10, 1792, with the testimony of
the witnesses, forming a document of 115 pages.]

[Footnote 3214: Deposition of Alexis Bro, a volunteer, and three
others.]

[Footnote 3215: Deposition of Pons, a merchant. After this devastation
he is obliged to address a petition to the executive power, asking
permission to remain in the town.]

[Footnote 3216: Deposition of Capdenet, a shoemaker.]

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