e town, or very large one,
about five thousand. Taking into account the changes that have taken
place in seventy years, one may judge from these figures of the
distribution of the population in 1793. This distribution explains why,
instead of forty-five thousand revolutionary committees, there were only
twenty-one thousand five hundred.]

[Footnote 3360: "Souvenirs des M. Hua," 179. "This country
(Coucy-le-Chateau) protected by its bad roads and still more by its
nullity, belonged to that small number in which the revolutionary
turmoil was least felt."]

[Footnote 3361: Among other documents of use in composing this picture
I must cite, as first in importance, the five files containing all the
documents referring to the mission of the representative Albert, in
Aisne and Marne. (Ventose and Germinal, year III.) Nowhere do we find
more precise details of the sentiments of the peasant, of the common
laborer and of the lower bourgeois from 1792 to 1795. (Archives
Nationales, D. PP 2 to 5.)]

[Footnote 3362: Daubari, "La Demagogie en 1793," XII. (The expression
of an old peasant, near Saint-Emilion, to M. Vatel engaged in collecting
information on the last days of Petion, Guadet and Buzot.)]

[Footnote 3363: Archives Nationales, D. p I., 5. (Petition of Claude
Defert, miller, and national agent of Turgy.) Numbers of mayors,
municipal officers, national agents, administrators and notables of
districts and departments solicit successors, and Albert compels many of
them to remain in office.--(Joint letter of the entire municipality of
Landreville; letter of Charles, stone-cutter, mayor of Trannes; Claude
Defert, miller, national agent of Turgy; of Elegny, meat-dealer; of a
wine-grower; municipal official at Merrex, etc.) The latter writes: "The
Republic is great and generous; it does not desire that its children
should ruin themselves in attending to its affairs; on the contrary,
its object is to give salaried (emolumentaires) places to those who have
nothing to live on."--Another, Mageure, appointed mayor of Bar-sur-Seine
writes, Pluviose 29, year III.: "I learned yesterday that some persons
of this community would like to procure for me the insidious gift of the
mayoralty," and he begs Albert to turn aside this cup.]

[Footnote 3364: "Souvenirs de M. Hua," 178-205. "M. P..., mayor of
Crepy-au-Mont, knew how to restrain some low fellows who would have
been only too glad to revolutionize his village.... And yet he was a
r