The French Revolution (Vol.1-3). Taine Hippolyte

[ "Archives Nationales," H, 2453. correspondence of M. de Bercheny, June 5, 1790, etc.—F7, 3226. Letters of Chenantin, cultivator, November 7, 1792, also of the prosecuting attorney, November 6.—F7, 3269. Minutes of the meeting of the municipality of Clugnac, August 5th, 1792.—F7, 3202. Letter of the Minister of Justice, Duport, January 3, 1792. "The utter absence of public force in the district of Montargis renders every operation of the Government and all execution of the laws impossible. The arrears of taxes to be collected is here very considerable, while all proceedings of constraint are dangerous and impossible to execute, owing to the fears of the bailiffs, who dare not perform their duties, and the violence of the tax-payers, on whom there is no check."]

      3252 (return) [ Report of the Committee on Finances, by Ramel, 19th Floréal, year II (The Constituent Assembly had fixed the real tax of a house at one-sixth of its letting value.)]

      3253 (return) [ Mercure de France, December 12, 1789.—"Archives Nationales," F7, 3268. Memorandum from the officers in command of the detachment of the Paris National Guard stationed at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (April, 1790). Certificate of the Municipal Officers of Poissy, March 31.]

      3254 (return) [ Mercure de France, March 12 and 26, 1791.—"Archives Nationales," H, 1453. Letter of the police-lieutenant of Blois, April 22, 1790.—Mercure de France, July 24, 1790. Two of the murderers exclaimed to those who tried to save one of the keepers, "Hanging is well done at Paris! Bah, you are aristocrats! We shall be talked about in the gazettes of Paris." (Deposition of witnesses.)—Decrees and proclamations regarding the protection of the forests, November 3 and December 11, 1789.—Another in October, 1790.—Another June 29, 1791.]

      3255 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3219. Letter of the bailli de Virieu, January 26, 1792.]

      3256 (return) [ Mercure de France, December 3, 1791. (Letter from Sarreluis, November 15, 1791.)—"Archives Nationales," F7, 3223. Letter of the Municipal Officers of Montargis. January 8, 1792.]

      3257 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268. Letter of the overseer of the national domains at Rambouillet, October 31, 1792.—Report of the minister Clavières, February 1. 1793.]

      3258 (return) [ Decrees of August 14, 1792, June 10, 1793.—"Archives Nationales," Missions des Représentants, D, § 7. (Deliberation of the district of Troyes, 2 Ventose, an. III.)—At Thunelières, the drawing took place on the 10th Fructidor, year II, and was done over again in behalf of a servant of Billy, an influential municipal officer who "was the soul of his colleagues."—Ibid. Abstract of operations in the district of Arcis-sur-Aube, 30 Pluviose, year III. "Two-thirds of the communes hold this kind of property. Most of them have voted on and effected the partition, or are actually engaged on it."]

      3259 (return) [ Mercure de France, January 7, 1790. (Chateau of Auxon in Haute-Saone.)—"Archives Nationales," F7, 3255. (Letter of the minister to the Directory of Rhone-et-Loire, July 2, 1790.)—Mercure de France, July 17, 1790. (Report of M. de Broglie, July 13, and decree of July 13–18.)—"Archives Nationales," H, 1453. (Correspondence of M. de Bercheny, July 21, 1790.)]

      3260 (return) [ Mercure de France, March 19, 1790. Letter from Amien, February 28. (Mallet du Pan publishes in the Mercure only letters which are signed and authentic.)]

      3261 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," KK, 1105. (Correspondence of M. de Thiard; letters of Chevalier de Bévy, December 26, 1789, and others up to April 5, 1790.)—Moniteur, sitting of February 9, 1790.—Mercure de France, February 6 and March 6, 1790 (list of chateaux).]

      3262 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," KK, 1105. (correspondence of M. de Thiard.) Letters of the Mayor of Nantes, February 16,!790, of the Municipality of Redon, February 19, etc.]

      3263 (return) [ Mercure de France, February 6 and 27, 1790. (Speech of M. de Foucault, sittings of February 2 and 5)—Moniteur (same dates). (Report of Grégoire, February 9; speeches by MM. Sallé de Chaux and de Noailles, February 9.)—Memorandum of the deputies of the town of Tulle, drawn up by the Abbé Morellet (from the deliberations and addresses of eighty-three boroughs and cities in the province).]

      3264 (return) [ In allusion to the feudal custom of paying seignorial dues on the first of May around a maypole. See further on. 32TR]

      3265 (return) [ Criminal Courts without appeal.—32TR.]

      3266 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of March 4, 1790.—Duvergier, decrees of March 6, 1790, and August 6–10 1790]

      3267 (return) [ The address is dated February 11, 1793. This singularly comic document would alone suffice to make the history of the Revolution perfectly comprehensible.]

      3268 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3203. (Letters of the royal commissioner, April 30 and May 9, 1790.)—Letter of the Duc de Maillé, May 6.—Report from the administrators of the department, November 12, 1790.—Moniteur VI. 515.]

      3269 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3225. Letter of the Directory from Ille-et-Vilaine, January 30, 1791, and letter from Dinan, January 29—Mercure de France, April 2 and 16, 1791. Letters from Rennes, March 20th; from Redon, March 12.]

      3270 (return) [ So expressed in the minutes of the meeting.]

      3271 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of December 15, 1790. (Address of the department of Lot, December 7.)—Sitting of December 20 (Speech by M. de Foucault.)—Mercure de France, December 18, 1790. (Letter from Belves, in Perigord, December 7.)—Ibid., January 22, 29, 1791. (Letter from M. de Clarac, January 18.)]