of the Nantes section July
5).--Letter of Merlin and Gillet, representatives on mission, Lorient,
June 12. Dissatisfaction at the outrages of May 31 and June 2, was so
manifest that the representatives on mission Merline, Gillet, Savestre,
and Cagaignac print on the 14th of June a resolution authorising one of
their body to go to the Convention and protest "in their name" against
the weakness shown by it and against the ursurpations of the Paris
commune.--Sauzay, IV., 260. At Besancon, in a general assembly of all
the administrative, judicial and municipal bodies of the department
joined to the commissioners of the section, protest "unanimously" on the
15th of June.]

[Footnote 1151: Archives Nationales, Ibid.(Letter of Romme and Prieur,
Caen, June 10th, to the committee of Public Safety). The insurgents are
so evidently in the right that Romme and Prieur approve of their
own arrest. "Citizens, our colleagues, this arrest may be of great
importance, serve the cause of liberty, maintain the unity of the
republic and revive confidence if, as we hasten to demand it of you, you
confirm it by a decree which declares us hostages.... We have noticed
that among the people of Caen, there is a love of liberty, as well as of
justice and docility."]

[Footnote 1152: Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. (Printed July 5).
Result of the deliberations of the Nantes sections. The act is signed
by the three administrative bodies of Nantes, by the district rulers of
Clisson, Anceries and Machecoul, who had fled to Nantes, and by both
the deputies of the districts of Paimboeuf and Chateaubriand, in all,
eighty-six signatures.]

[Footnote 1153: Archives Nationales, ibid., (letter of General Wimpffen
to the "Societe des Amis de l'Egalite et de la Liberte" in session
at Cherbourg, June 25, 1793).--Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 126.--On the
opinion of the departments cf. Paul Thibaud ("Etudes sur l'histoire
de Grenoble et du Department de l'Isere").--Louis Guibert ("Le Parti
Girondin dans le Haute Vienne").--Jarrin, ("Bourg et Bellay pendant la
Revolution").]

[Footnote 1154: Albert Babeau, II., 83. (Pamphlet by the cure of
Cleray). "Every primary assembly that accepts the Constitution strikes
the factions a blow on the head with the club of Hercules."]

[Footnote 1155: Cf. "The Revolution," Vol. II. Ch. XI.]

[Footnote 1156: Buzot.--Archives Nationales, AF. II., 157. Reports by
Baudot and Ysabeau to the Convention. The 19th of Aug. At the Hote