Each army is to be directed by commissioners, strangers to the
department, and is to operate in other departments than in the one
where it is raised.)
[157] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, 331. (Letter of Ch?py,
Frimaire II.) - Writing one month before this, (Brumaire 6) he says:
"The farmers show themselves very hostile against the towns and the
law of the maximum. Nothing can be done without a revolutionary
army."
[158] Mercier, "Paris Pendant la R?volution," I., 357.
[159] Hua, 197. I do not find in any printed or manuscript document
but one case of resistance, that of the brothers Chaperon, in the
hamlet of Leges, near Sens, who declare that they have no wheat except
for their own use, and who defend themselves by the use of a gun. The
gendarmerie not being strong enough to overcome them, the tocsin is
sounded and the National Guard of Sens and the neighborhood is
summoned; bringing cannon, the affair ends with the burning of the
house. The two brothers are killed. Before being overcome, however,
they had struck down the captain of the National Guard of Sens and
killed or wounded nearly forty of their assailants. A surviving
brother and a sister are guillotined.
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