nnere).]

[Footnote 5317: "Proces-verbaux de l'ass. Prov. D'Orleanais," p. 296.
"Distrusts still prevails throughout the rural districts. . . Your
first orders for departmental assemblies only awakened suspicion in
certain quarters."]

[Footnote 5318: "Tableau de Paris," XII. 186.]

[Footnote 5319: Mme. Vigee-Lebrun, I. 158, (1788); I. 183 (1789).]

[Footnote 5320: Archives nationals, H. 723. (Letter of M. de Caumartin,
intendant at Besancon, Dec. 5, 1788).]

[Footnote 5321: D'Argenson, March 13, 1752.]

[Footnote 5322: "Corresp.," of Metra, V, 179 (November 22, 1777).]

[Footnote 5323: Beugnot, I. 142. "No inhabitant of the barony of
Choiseul mingled with any of the bands composed of the patriots of
Montigny, smugglers and outcasts of the neighborhood."--See, on the
poachers of the day, "Les deux amis de Bourbonne," by Diderot.]

[Footnote 5324: De Calonne, "Memoires presentes a l'ass. des notables,"
No. 8.--Necker, "De l'Administration des Finances," I. 195.]

[Footnote 5325: Letrosne, "De l'Administration des Finances," 59.]

[Footnote 5326: Archives nationales, H. 426. (Memoires of the
farmers-general, Jan. 13, 1781, Sept. 15, 1782). H, 614. (Letter of M.
de Coetlosquet, April 25, 1777). H, 1431. Report by the farmers-general,
March 9, 1787.]

[Footnote 5327: Archives nationales, H, 1453. Letter of the Baron de
Bezenval, June 19, 1789.]

[Footnote 5328: "Mandrin," by Paul Simian, passim.--"Histoire de
Beaume," by Rossignol, p. 453.--"Mandrin," by Ch. Jarrin (1875). Major
Fisher, who attacks and disperses the gang, writes that the affair is
urgent since, "higher to the North near Forez, one can find two or
three hundred vagrants who only wait for a chance to unite with them."
(p.47.)]

[Footnote 5329: Mercier, XI. 116.]

[Footnote 5330: See above, book I. p. 55.]

[Footnote 5331: Letrosne, ibid. (1779), p. 539.]

[Footnote 5332: Archives nationales, F16, 965, and H, 892. (Ordinance of
August 4 1764; a circular of instructions of July 20, 1767; a letter of
a police lieutenant of Toulouse, September 21, 1787).]

[Footnote 5333: Archives nationales, H, 724; H, 554; F4 2397; F16
965.--Letters of the jailers of Carcassonne (June 22, 1789); of Beziers
(July 19, 1786); of Nimes (July 1, 1786); of the intendant, M. d'Aine
(March 19, 1786).]

[Footnote 5334: Archives nationales, H, 554. (Letter of M. de Bertrand,
intendant of Rennes, August 7, 1785).]

[Footnote 5335: Archives nationales, H, 426. (Remo