ber, and that it cost them nothing to
massacre."]

[Footnote 3252: Summaries, in the order of their date or locality, and
similar to those about to be placed before the reader, sometimes occur
in these files. I pursue the same course as the clerk, in conformity
with Roland's methodical habits.]

[Footnote 3253: Aug. 17, 1792 (Moniteur, XIII, 383, report of M.
Emmery).]

[Footnote 3254: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3271. Letter of the
administrators of Tarn, July 21.]

[Footnote 3255: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3234. Report of the
municipal officers of Clairac, July 20.-Letter of the syndic-attorney of
Lot-et-Garonne, Sept. 16.]

[Footnote 3256: Mercure de France, number for July 28, (letters from
Bordeaux).]

[Footnote 3257: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3275. Letter of the
administrators of Haute-Vienne, July 28 (with official reports).]

[Footnote 3258: '"Archives Nationales," F7, 3223. Letter of the
directory of the district of Neuville to the department-administrators,
Sept 18.]

[Footnote 3259: "Archives Nationales," report of the administrators of
the department and council-general of the commune of Orleans, Sept 16
and 17. (The disarmament had been effected through the decrees of Aug.26
and Sept. 2.)]

[Footnote 3260: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3249. Letter of the
lieutenant of the gendarmerie of Dampierre, Sept 23 (with official
report dated Sept 19).]

[Footnote 3261: "Archives Nationales," draft of a letter by Roland, Oct
4, and others of the same kind.--Letter of the municipal officers of
Ray, Sept 24.--Letter of M. Desdouits, proprietor, Sept 30.--Letter of
the permanent council of Aigle, Oct 1, etc.]

[Footnote 3262: "Archives Nationales," Letter of the administrators of
the Orne department, Sept 7.]

[Footnote 3263: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 337 (Sept. 6).]

[Footnote 3264: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3265. Letter of the
lieutenant-general of the gendarmerie, Aug. 30.--Official report of
the Rouen municipality on the riot of Aug. 29.--Letters of the
department-administrators, Sept 18 and Oct. 11.--Letter of the same, Oct
13, etc.--Letter of David, cultivator and department administrator Oct
11.]

[Footnote 3265: Albert Babean, "Letters of a deputy of the municipality
of Troyes to the army of Dumuriez," p. 8.--(Sainte-Menehould, Sept. 7,
1792): "Our troops burn with a desire to meet the enemy. The massacre
reported to have taken place in Paris does not discourage them; on the
contrary, they are