Every day, now that
these reach it, they are published and observed within its walls."
[73] Moniteur, XVII., 269. (Session of July 28). (Letter of the
administrators of the department of Rhone-et-Loire to the Convention,
Lyons, July 24). "We present to the Convention our individual
recantation and declaration; in conforming to the law we are entitled
to its protection. We petition the court to decide on our
declaration, and to repeal the acts which relate to us or make an
exception in our favor. . . We have always professed ourselves to
be true republicans."
[74] Guillon de Montl?on, I., 309, 311, 315, 335. -- Mortimer-
Ternaux, VIII., 197.
[75] Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 141.
[76] Mallet du Pan, I., 379 and following pages; I., 408; II., 10.
[77] Entry of the Republican troops into Lyons, October 9th, into
Toulon, December 19th. - Bordeaux had submitted on the 2nd of August.
Exasperated by the decree of the 6th which proscribed all the abettors
of the insurrection, the city drives out, on the 19th, the
representatives Baudot and Ysabeau. It submits again on the 19th of
September. But so great is the indignation of the citizens, Tallien
and his three colleagues dare not enter before the 16th of October.
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