L? in the house of an old man of
seventy, a M. Lemonnier then under arrest. "Scarcely had they
entered the house when they demanded provisions of every kind, linen,
clothes, furniture, jewelry, plate, vehicles and title-deeds - all
disappeared." Whilst the inhabitants of St. L? were living on a few
ounces of brown bread, "the best bread, the choicest wines, pillaged
in the house of Lemonnier, were lavishly given in pans and kettles to
General Seepher's horses, also to those of representative Laplanche."
Lemonnier, set at liberty, could not return to his emptied dwelling
then transformed into a storehouse. He lived at the inn, stripped of
all his possessions, valued at sixty thousand livres, having saved
from his effects only one silver table-service, which he had taken
with him into prison.
[97] Marcelin Boudet, 446. (Notes of M. Ignace de Barante.) Also
440. (Unpublished memoir of Maignet).
[98] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 59. Extract from the minutes of
the meetings of the People's club of Metz, and depositions made before
the committee of Surveillance of the club, Floreal 12, year II., on
the conduct of representative Duquesnoy, arrived at Metz the evening
before at six o'clock.
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