e text. (Archives
des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 333, letter of Garrigues, Auch, Pluviose
24, year II.): "A delegate of Dartigoyte goes to l'Isle and, in the
popular club, wants the cure of the place to get rid of his priestly
attributes. The man answers, so they tell me, that he would cheerfully
abstain from his duties, but that, if, in addition to this, they
used force he would appeal to the convention, which had no idea of
interfering with freedom of opinion. 'Very well,' replied Dartigoyte
emissary, 'I appeal to a gendarme,' and he at once ordered his arrest."]

[Footnote 3373: Lallier, "Une commission D'enquete et de Propagande,"
p.7. (It is composed of twelve members, selected by the club of Nantes,
who overrun the district of Ancenis, six thousand francs of fees being
allowed it.)--Babeau, II., 280. (Dispatch of sixty commissioners, each
at six francs a day by the Troyes administration, to ascertain the state
of the supplies on hand, Prairial, year II.)]

[Footnote 3374: For example, at Bordeaux and at Troyes.--Archives
Nationales F7, 4421. Register of the Revolutionary committee of Troyes,
fol. 164. Two members of the committee travel to the commune of Lusigny,
dismiss the mayor and justice, and appoint in the place of the latter
"the former cure of the country, who, some time ago, abjured sacerdotal
fanaticism."--Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.332. (Letter of
Desgranges, Bordeaux, Brumaire 15, year II.) The representatives have
just instituted "a revolutionary committee of surveillance composed
of twelve members, selected with the greatest circumspection. All the
committees established in the department are obliged to correspond with
it, and fulfill its requisitions."]

[Footnote 3375: Archives Nationales, AF., II, 58. (Letter of Javogues to
Collot d'Herbois, Brumaire 28, year II.)]

[Footnote 3376: "Recueil des Pieces Authentiques," etc., I., 195. (Acts
passed Jan.21, 1793.)]

[Footnote 3377: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 326. (Letters
from Brutus, September 24; from Topino-Lebrun, jr., September 25 and
October 6, 1793.--Vol. 330. Letters from Brutus, Nivose 6, year II.) The
character of the agent is often indicated orthographically. For example,
vol.334, letter from Galon-Boyer, Brumaire 18, year II. "The public
spirit is generally bad. Those who claim to be patriots know no
restraint. The rest are lethargic and federalism appears innate."]

[Footnote 3378: Archives des Affaires etrangere