e aristocrats
will hang). (SR)]

[Footnote 2128: On the 15th of August, 1791, the mother-superior of the
Hotel-Dieu hospital is forcibly carried off and placed in a tavern, half
a league from the town, while the rest of the nuns are driven out and
replaced by eight young girls from the town. Among other motives that
require notice is the hostility of two pharmacists belonging to the
club; in the Hotel-Dieu the nuns, keeping a pharmacy from which they
sold drugs at cost and thereby brought themselves into competition with
the two pharmacists.]

[Footnote 2129: Cf. "Archives Nationales," DXXIX. 13. Letter of the
municipal officers and notables of Champoeuil to the administrators of
Seine-et-Oise, concerning elections, June 17, 1791.--Similar letters,
from various other parishes, among them that of Charcon, June 16: "They
have the honor to inform you that, at the time of the preceding primary
meetings, they were exposed to the greatest danger; that the cure of
Charcon, their pastor, was repeatedly stabbed with a bayonet, the
marks of which he will carry to his grave. The mayor, and several other
inhabitants of Charcon, escaped the same peril with difficulty."--Ibid.,
letters from the administrators of Hautes-Alpes to the National Assembly
(September, 1791), on the disturbances in the electoral assembly of Gap,
August 29, 1791.]

[Footnote 2130: Police searches of private homes. (SR).]

[Footnote 2131: "The French Revolution," pp. 159, 160, 310, 323,
324.--Lauvergne, "Histoire du departement du Var," (August 23).]

[Footnote 2132: '"Archives Nationales," F7, 3,198, deposition of
Verand-Icard, an elector at Arles, Sep. 8, 1791.--Ibid., F7, 3,195.
Letter of the administrators of the Tarascon district, Dec. 8, 1791. Two
parties confront each other at the municipal elections of Barbantane,
one headed by the Abbe Chabaud, brother of one of the Avignon brigands,
composed of three or four townsmen, and of "the most impoverished in
the country," and the other, three times as numerous, comprising all
the land-owners, the substantial metayers and artisans, and all "who are
most interested in a good administration" The question is, whether the
Abbe Chabaud is to be mayor. The elections took place Dec.5th, 1791.
Here is the official report of the acting mayor: mayor: "We, Pierre
Fontaine, mayor, addressed the rioters, to induce them to keep the
peace. At this very moment, the said Claude Gontier, alias Baoque,
struck us with his