; on removing the seals in the houses of those
imprisoned and guillotined, little or nothing was found in them.
Alban was denounced and incarcerated for having obliged a woman of
Macon to give him four hundred francs on promising to interest himself
in her husband. Such are the Ain patriots. Rollet, another, had so
frightened the rural districts that the people ran away on his
approach; on one occasion he had two of them harnessed to his carriage
and drove them along for some time in this manner . . . Another,
Charcot (of Virieu), before the Revolution, was a highway assassin,
and was banished for three years for an act of this description."
(Bibliotheque Nationale. Lb. 41, No. 1318. "The truth in reply to
calumnious charges against the department of Ain." Letter of Roux,
Vend?miaire, year III.)
[7] Decree of Germinal 12, year III: for the transportation of Collot,
Bar?re, Billaud-Varennes and Vadier. Eight Montagnards are put under
arrest. - Decree of Germinal 14: the same against nine other
Montagnards. ?Decree of Germinal 29: the same against Maribon-
Montant. - Decree of Prairial 6: twenty-nine Montagnards are
indicted. - Decree of Prairial 8: putting six Montagnards under
arrest.
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