ation of twenty-four
sections sent from Bordeaux to the Convention, August 30).--Buchez
et Roux, XXVIII., 494. (Report of the representatives on mission in
Bouches-du-Rhone, September 2nd).--Ibid., XXX., 386. (Letter of Rousin,
commandant of the revolutionary army at Lyons. "A population of one
hundred twenty thousand souls..... There are not amongst all these, one
thousand five hundred patriots, even one thousand five hundred persons
that one could spare."--Guillon de Montleon, I., 355, 374. (Signatures of
twenty thousand Lyonnese of all classes, August 17th).]

[Footnote 1184: Guillon de Montleon, I., 394. (Letter of Dubois-Crance
to the Lyonnese, August 19th.)]

[Footnote 1185: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 198. (Decree of Aug.
6.)--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 297, (Decree of July 12.).--Guillon de
Montleon, I., 342. Summons of Dubois-Crance, Aug. 8.)]

[Footnote 1186: Meillan, 142.).--"Archives des Affaires Etrangeres,"
vol. CCCXXXII. (Letter of Desgranges, Bordeaux, Brumaire 8, year II.):
"The execution of Mayor Saige, who was much loved by the people for his
benefactions, caused much sorrow: but no guilty murmur was heard."]

[Footnote 1187: Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. (Letter of Julien to
the Committee of Public Safety Messidor 11, year II). "Some time ago a
solemn silence prevailed at the sessions of the military commission, the
people's response to the death-sentences against conspirators; the same
silence attended them to the scaffold; the whole commune seemed to sob
in secret at their fate."]

[Footnote 1188: Berryat Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionaire," pp.
277-299.--Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. (Registers of the Com. Of
Surveillance, Bordeaux). The number of prisoners between Prairial 21 and
28, varies from 1504 to 1529. Number of the guillotined, 882. (Memoirs
of Senart).]

[Footnote 1189: Archives Nationales, AF. II., 46. Letter of Julien,
Messidor 12, year II. "A good deal has been stolen here; the mayor, now
in prison, is informed of considerable losses. The former Committee of
surveillance came under serious suspicion; many people who were outlawed
only escaped by paying: it is a fact that... Of a number of those who
have thus purchased their lives there are some who did not deserve to
die and who, nevertheless, were threatened with death."--Buchez et Roux,
XXXII., 428. (Extracts from the Memoirs of Senart). "The president of
the military commission was a man named Lacombe, already banished