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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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[98] Ibid. Orders of Albert, Vent?se 5, and Pluvi?se 29, year III.,
reorganizing the courts and administrations in the districts of Ervy,
Arcis and Nogent-sur-Seine, with a tabular statement of the names of
those removed and the reasons for so doing.
[99] Petition of Jean Nicolas Antoine, former member of the Directory
of the district of Troyes for twenty-eight months. (Ventose 9, year
II I.) Shut up in Troyes, he asks permission to go to Paris, "I have a
small lot of goods which it is necessary for me to sell in Paris. It
is my native town and I know more people there than anywhere else."-
Ibid. Information furnished on Antoine by the Conseil-general of the
Commune of Troyes.
[100] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 59. (Memorials dated Messidor
28, year II., by an emissary of the Committee of Public Safety, sent
to Troyes, Prairial 29, to report on the situation of things and on
the troubles in Troyes.) - Albert Babeau, II., 203, 205 and 112, 122.
- Cf. 179. "Gachez, intoxicated, about eleven o'clock at night, with
several women as drunk as himself, compelled the keeper of the Temple
of Reason to open the doors, threatening him with the guillotine.


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