here."]

[Footnote 2113: De Martel, "Les Historiens fantaisistes," part 2 (on the
Pacification of the West, according to reports of the royalist leaders
and of the republican generals).]

[Footnote 2114: Archives nationales, F7, 3218. (Summary of dispatches
arranged according to dates.-Letters of Adjutant-General Vicose,
Fructidor 3, year VII.--Letters of Lamagdelaine, commissioner of the
executive Directory, Thermidor 26 and Fructidor 3, year VII.)--"The
rascals who led the people astray had promised them, in the King's name,
that they should not be called on for further taxes, that the conscripts
and requisitionnaires should not leave, and, finally, that they should
have the priests they wanted."--Near Montrejean "the carnage
was frightful, nearly 2000 men slain or drowned and 1000
prisoners."--(Letter of M. Alquier to the first consul, Pluviose 18,
year VIII.) "The insurrection of Thermidor caused the loss of 3000
cultivators.--(Letters of the department administrators and of the
government commissioners, Nivose 25 and 27, Pluviose 13, 15, 25, 27, and
30, year VIII.)--The insurrection is prolonged through a vast number of
isolated outrages, with sabers or guns, against republican functionaries
and partisans, justices of the peace, mayors, etc. In the commune of
Balbeze, fifty conscripts, armed deserters with their knapsacks, impose
requisitions,give balls on Sunday, and make patriots give up their arms.
Elsewhere, this or that known patriot is assaulted in his house by a
band of ten or a dozen young folks who make him pay a ransom, shout
"Vive le Roi!" etc.--Cf. "Histoire de I' insurrection royaliste de l'an
VII," by B. Lavigne, 1887.]

[Footnote 2115: Archives nationales, F7, 3273 (Letter of the
commissioner of the executive Directory, Vaucluse, Fructidor 6, year
VII.): "Eighty armed royalists have carried off, near the forest of
Suze, the cash-box of the collector, Bouchet, in the name of Louis
XVIII. These rascals, it must be noted, did not take any of the money
belonging to the collector himself."--(Ibid., Thermidor 3, year VII.)
"On looking around among our communes I find all of them under the
control of royalist or town-councillors. That is the spirit of the
peasants generally.... Public spirit it so perverted, so opposed to the
constitutional regime, that a miracle only will bring them within the
pale of freedom."--Ibid., F7, 3199. (Similar documents on the department
of Bouches-du-Rhone.) Outrages continu