(Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 197 and following pages.)
[78] Seventy thousand men were required to reduce Lyons, (Guillon de
Montl?on, II., 226) and sixty thousand men to reduce Toulon.
[79] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol. CCCXXIX. (Letter of
Ch?py, political agent, Grenoble, July 26, 1793). "I say it
unhesitatingly, I had rather reduce Lyons than save Valenciennes."
[80] Ibid., vol. CCCXXIX. (Letter of Ch?py, Grenoble, August 24,
1793): "The Piedmontese are masters of Cluse. A large body of
mountaineers have joined them. At Annecy the women have cut down the
liberty pole and burnt the archives of the club and commune. At
Chamb?ry, the people wanted to do the same, but they forced the sick
in the hospitals to take arms and thus kept them down."
[81] Moniteur, XVIII, 474. (Report of Billaud-Varennes, October 18,
1793). "The combined efforts of all the powers of Europe have not
compromised liberty and the country so much as the federalist
factions; the assassin the most to be dreaded is the one that lives in
the house."
[82] The convention purposely reinstates incendiaries and assassins.
(Moniteur, XVIII., 483. Session of Breumaire 28, year II.
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