anchie, Brumaire 9, year II., establishing in the ten
surrounding departments a revolutionary army of one thousand men per
department, for the conscription of grain. Each army is to be directed
by commissioners, strangers to the department, and is to operate in
other departments than in the one where it is raised.)]

[Footnote 33157: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, 331. (Letter of
Chepy, Frimaire II.)--Writing one month before this, (Brumaire 6) he
says: "The farmers show themselves very hostile against the towns and
the law of the maximum. Nothing can be done without a revolutionary
army."]

[Footnote 33158: Mercier, "Paris Pendant la Revolution," I., 357.]

[Footnote 33159: Hua, 197. I do not find in any printed or manuscript
document but one case of resistance, that of the brothers Chaperon,
in the hamlet of Leges, near Sens, who declare that they have no wheat
except for their own use, and who defend themselves by the use of a gun.
The gendarmerie not being strong enough to overcome them, the tocsin is
sounded and the National Guard of Sens and the neighborhood is summoned;
bringing cannon, the affair ends with the burning of the house. The two
brothers are killed. Before being overcome, however, they had struck
down the captain of the National Guard of Sens and killed or wounded
nearly forty of their assailants. A surviving brother and a sister are
guillotined. (June, 1794. Wallon, IV., 352.)]

[Footnote 33160: Moniteur, XVIII., 663. (Session of Frimaire 24, report
by Lecointre.) "The communes of Thieux, Jully and many others were
victims to their brigandage."--"The stupor in the country is such that
the poor sufferers dare not complain of these vexations because, they
say, they are only too lucky to have escaped with their lives."--This
time, however, these public brigands made a mistake. Gibbon's
son happens to be Lecointre's tenant farmer. Moreover, it is only
accidentally that he mentions the circumstance to his landlord; "he came
to see him for another purpose."--Cf. "The Revolution," vol. II., 302.
(There is a similar scene in the house of one Ruelle, a farmer, in the
commune of Lisse.)]

[Footnote 33161: Passim Alfred Lallier, "Le sans-culotte
Goullin."--Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal revolutionnaire de Paris,"
V., 368. (Deposition of Lacaille.)--In addition to this, the most
extraordinary monsters are met with in other administrative bodies, for
example, in Nantes, a Jean d'Heron, tailor, who becomes