assemblies in the twenty-two first
departments on the alphabetical list, that is to say, one quarter of the
territory, which warrants a conclusion, proportionately, on the whole
country. In these twenty-two departments, 1,570 assemblies vote on the
constitution and only three hundred and twenty-eight on the decrees. The
figures are herewith given: in the Cotes-du-Nord, eighty-four primary
assemblies; only one votes in favor of the decrees. Bouches du Rhone,
ninety primary assemblies; four vote on the decrees, two for and
two against. Aude, eighty-three primary assemblies; four vote on
the decrees, three for and one against. Arriege, fifty-nine primary
assemblies; two vote on the decrees. Basses-Alpes, forty-eight primary
assemblies: two vote on the decrees. Maritime Alps, twenty-three primary
assemblies; not one votes on the decrees.]

[Footnote 5120: Ibid., (Proces-verbaux of the primary assemblies of
the department of the Seine, Popincourt section, Vendemiaire) 91. This
section, on learning that its vote against the decrees" was put down
as a cipher in the general count of votes," protested and declared that
"when the vote was taken at the meeting of Fructidor 22, it was composed
of 845 citizens representing 2,594 votes." Nevertheless, in the general
recapitulation of Vendemiaire its vote counts for nothing.--The same
remark for the "Fidelite" section. Its minutes state that the decrees
are rejected "unanimously," and that it is composed of 1,300 citizens;
its vote, likewise, goes for nothing. The totals given by the
recapitulation are as follows: Voters on the Constitution, 1,107,368.
For, 1,057,390. Against, 49,978.--Voters on the Decrees, 314,382. For,
205,498. Against, 108,794.--Mallet-Dupan (I., 313) estimates the number
of electors, at Paris, who rejected the decrees, at eighty thousand.
Fievee, "Correspondance avec Bonaparte," introduction, p. 126.--(A few
days before Vendemiaire 13, Fievee, in the name of the Theatre-Francais
section, came, with two other commissioners, to verify the returns
announced by the Convention.) "We divided the returns into three parts;
each commissioner undertook to check off one of these parts, pen in
hand, and the conscientious result of our labor was to show that,
although the Convention had voting done in a mass by all the regiments
then in France, individually, the majority, incontestably was against
its project. Thus, while trying to have the election law passed under
the Const