"
[34] "M?moires de Fr?ron" and on Fr?ron, (collection Barri?re et
Berville,) p.364. Letter of Fr?ron, Toulon, Niv?se 16. "More than
eight hundred Toulonese have already been shot."
[35] Lallier, p.90. (The eleven distinct drownings ascertained by M.
Lallier extend up to Pluvi?se 12, year II.)
[36] Moniteur, XXII., 227. (Official documents read in the
Convention, Vent?se 21, year III.) These documents authenticate an
ulterior drowning. Vent?se 9, year II., by order of Lef?vre, adjutant
general, forty-one persons were drowned, among whom were two men
seventy-eight years of age and blind, twelve women, twelve young
girls, fifteen children, of which ten were between six and ten years
old, and five at the breast. The drowning took place in the Bourgneuf
bay.-Carrier says in the Convention, (Moniteur, XXII., p.578), in
relation to the drowning of pregnant women: "At Laval, Angers, Saumur,
Chaban-Gontier, everywhere the same things took place as at Nantes."
[37] Camille Boursier, p.159.
[38] Ibid., 203. Representative Francastel announces "the firm
determination to purge, to bleed freely this Vendean question." This
same Francastel wrote to General Grignon: "Make those brigands
tremble! Give them no quarter! The prisons in Vend?e are overflowing
with prisoners! .
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