V., passim.--Jules Sauzay, "Histoire de la
persecution revolutionaire dans le Doubs," vols. III., IV., V., and
VI., particularly the list, at the end of the work, of those deported,
guillotined, sent into the interior and imprisoned.]
[Footnote 2132: Order of the day of the Convention September 17, 1792;
circular of the Executive Council, January 22, 1793; decrees of
the Convention, July 19, August 12, September 17, November 15,
1793.--Moniteur, October, and November, 1793, passim. (November 23,
Order of the Paris Commune, closing the churches.)--In relation to
the terror the constitutional priests were under, I merely give the
following extracts (Archives Nationales, F7,31167): "Citizen Pontard,
bishop of the department of Dordogne, lodging in the house of citizen
Bourbon, No. 66 faubourg Saint-Honore, on being informed that there was
an article in a newspaper called "le Republican" stating that a meeting
of priests had been held in the said house, declares that he had no
knowledge of it; that all the officers in charge of the apartments are
in harmony with the Revolution; that, if he had had occasion to suspect
such a circumstance, he would have move out immediately, and that if
any motive can possibly be detected in such a report it is his proposed
marriage with the niece of citizen Caminade, an excellent patriot and
captain of the 9th company of the Champs-Elysees section, a marriage
which puts an end to fanaticism in his department, unless this be
done by the ordination of a priest a la sans-culotte which he had done
yesterday in the chapel, another act in harmony with the Revolution. It
is well to add, perhaps, that one of his cures now in Paris has called
on him, and that he came to request him to second his marriage. The
name of the said cure is Greffier Sauvage; he is still in Paris, and
is preparing to be married the same time as himself. Aside from these
motives, which may have given rise to some talk, citizen Pontard sees no
cause whatever for suspicion. Besides, so thoroughly patriotic as he,
he asks nothing better than to know the truth, in order to march along
unhesitatingly in the revolutionary path. He sighs his declaration,
promising to support the Revolution on all occasions, by his writings as
well as by his conduct. He presents the two numbers of his journal which
he has had printed in Paris in support of the principles he adheres
to. At Paris, September 7, 1793, year II. Of the Republic, one and
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