[117] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 116. (Minutes of the public
session of Vent?se 20, year II., held at Montargis, in the Temple of
Reason, by Benon, "national agent of the commune and special agent of
the people's representative." Previous and subsequent orders, by
Representative Lefert.) Eighty-six persons signed, subject to public
penance, among them twenty-four wives or widows, which, with the four
names sent to the Paris tribunal and the thirty-two imprisoned, makes
one hundred and twenty-two. It is probable that the one hundred and
six who are wanting to complete the list of two hundred and twenty-
eight had emigrated, or been banished in the interval as unsworn
priests. - Ibid., D.S., I., 10. (Orders by Delacroix, Bouchet and
Legendre, Conches, Frimaire 8 and 9, year II.) The incarceration of
the municipal officers of Conches for an analogous petition and other
marks of Feuillantism.
[118] The real sentiments and purposes of the Jacobins are well shown
at Strasbourg. ("Recueil de Pieces, etc.," I., 77. Public meeting of
the municipal body, and speech by Bierlyn, Prairial 25, year II.) "
How can the insipid arrogance of these (Strasbourg) people be
represented to you, their senseless attachment to the patrician
families in their midst, the absurd feuil1antism of some and the vile
sycophancy of others? How is it, they say, that moneyless interlopers,
scarcely ever heard of before, dare assume to have credit in a town of
sensible inhabitants and honest families, from father to son,
accustomed to governing and renowned for centuries?" - Ibid.
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