imer-Ternaux, VIII., 141.]
[Footnote 1176: Mallet du Pan, I., 379 and following pages; I., 408;
II., 10.]
[Footnote 1177: Entry of the Republican troops into Lyons, October
9th, into Toulon, December 19th.--Bordeaux had submitted on the 2nd of
August. Exasperated by the decree of the 6th which proscribed all the
abettors of the insurrection, the city drives out, on the 19th, the
representatives Baudot and Ysabeau. It submits again on the 19th of
September. But so great is the indignation of the citizens, Tallien
and his three colleagues dare not enter before the 16th of October.
(Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 197 and following pages.)]
[Footnote 1178: Seventy thousand men were required to reduce Lyons,
(Guillon de Montleon, II., 226) and sixty thousand men to reduce
Toulon.]
[Footnote 1179: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. CCCXXIX.
(Letter of Chepy, political agent, Grenoble, July 26, 1793). "I say it
unhesitatingly, I had rather reduce Lyons than save Valenciennes."]
[Footnote 1180: Ibid., vol. CCCXXIX. (Letter of Chepy, Grenoble, August
24, 1793): "The Piedmontese are masters of Cluse. A large body of
mountaineers have joined them. At Annecy the women have cut down
the liberty pole and burnt the archives of the club and commune. At
Chambery, the people wanted to do the same, but they forced the sick in
the hospitals to take arms and thus kept them down."]
[Footnote 1181: Moniteur, XVIII, 474. (Report of Billaud-Varennes,
October 18, 1793). "The combined efforts of all the powers of Europe
have not compromised liberty and the country so much as the federalist
factions; the assassin the most to be dreaded is the one that lives in
the house."]
[Footnote 1182: The convention purposely reinstates incendiaries and
assassins. (Moniteur, XVIII., 483. Session of Breumaire 28, year II.):
XVII., 176. (Session of July 19, 1793). Rehabilitation of Bordier and
Jourdain, hung in August, 1789. Cancelling of the proceedings begun
against the authors of the massacre of Melun (September, 1792) and
release of the accused.--Cf. Albert Babeau, (I., 277.) Rehabilitation,
with indemnities distributed in Messidor, year II, to their
relatives.--"Archives des Affaires etrangeres," vol. 331. (Letter of
Chepy, Grenoble, Frimaire 8, year II). "The criminal court and jury of
the department have just risen to the height of the situation; they have
acquitted the castle-burners."]
[Footnote 1183: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 593. (Deput
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