" Lepetit orders out four peasants and placing them himself on
the river bank, gives the command to fire and to throw them in.
H?zine and Gidoum shout Vive la Nation! Gidouin then says to Lepetit:
"You don't mean to stop with those four peasants? won't you give us a
few cur?s?" Five priests are shot. - At Beaugency, there is a fresh
fusillade. The leaders take the best part of the spoil. Among other
objects, Lepetit has a coffer sent into his chamber and takes the
effects it contains and sells a bed and mattress beside.
[36] Ibid., (March, 1796). "Meanwhile, the young men who were
recruited, hid themselves: Bonnard made them pay, and still made them
set out. Baillon, quartermaster in the war, told me that he had paid
Bonnard 900,000 livres in assignats in twelve days, and 1,400,000 in
twenty days; there were 35,000 in the memoir for pens, penknives, ink,
and paper."
[37] Mallet-Dupan, "Correspondance, etc.," I., 383. (Letter of
Dec.13, 1795.) " The Directory keeps on filling the offices with
Terrorists. The government agents in the departments arbitrarily set
aside the constituted authorities and replace them with Jacobins."
[38] Province in ancient Turkey governed by a Pasha.
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