Mans, July 26th.]

[Footnote 1334: Montjoie, ch. LXXII, p. 93 (according to acts of legal
procedure). There was a soldier in the band who had served under M. de
Montesson and who wanted to avenge himself for the punishments he had
undergone in the regiment.]

[Footnote 1335: Mercure de France, August 20th (Letter from Vesoul,
August 13th).]

[Footnote 1336: M. de Memmay proved his innocence later on, and was
rehabilitated by a public decision after two years' proceedings (session
of June 4, 1791; Mercure of June 11th).]

[Footnote 1337: Journal des Debats et Decrets, I. 258. (Letter of the
municipality of Vesoul, July 22nd.--Discourse of M. de Toulougeon, July
29th.)]

[Footnote 1338: De Rochambeau, "Memoires," I. 353.--"Archives
Nationales," F7, 3253. (Letter of M. de Rochamheau, August
4th.)--Chronicle of Schmutz (ibid. ), p. 284. "Archives Nationales," D.
XXIX. I. (Letter of Mme. Ferrette, of Remiremont, August 9th.)]

[Footnote 1339: Sauzay, I. 180. (Letters of monks, July 22nd and 26th.)]

[Footnote 1340: "Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. (Letter of M. de
Bergeron, attorney to the presidial of Valence, August 28th, with the
details of the verdict stated.) Official report of the militia of Lyons,
sent to the president of the National Assembly, August 10th. (Expedition
to Serriere, in Dauphiny, July 31st.)]

[Footnote 1341: Letter of the Count of Courtivron, deputy substitute
(an eye-witness).--"Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. Letter of the
municipal officers of Cremieu (Dauphiny), November 3rd. Letter of the
Vicomte de Carbonniere (Auvergne), August 3rd.--Arthur Young, July 30th
(Dijon) says, apropos of a noble family which escaped almost naked
from its burning chateau, "they were esteemed by the neighbors;
their virtues ought to have commanded the love of the poor, for whose
resentment there was no cause."]

[Footnote 1342: "Archives Nationales," XXIX. I. (Letter of the
commission of the States of Dauphiny, July 31st.)]

[Footnote 1343: "Desastres du Maconnais," by Puthod de la Maison-Rouge
(August, 1789). "Ravages du Maconnais."--Arthur Young, July
27th.--Buchez and Roux, IV. 215, 214.--Mercure de France, September
12, 1789. (Letter by a volunteer of Orleans.) "On the 15th of August,
eighty-eight ruffians, calling themselves reapers, present themselves at
Bascon, in Beauce, and, the next day, at a chateau in the neighborhood,
where they demand within an hour the head of the son of the lord of the
m