Balls
and parties have been resumed in the towns, while the old dances
of Provence, suspended for ten years, now gladden the people of the
country."]

[Footnote 3112: Proclamation to the French people, Dec. 15, 1799.]

[Footnote 3113: See "The Revolution," vol. III., p.292. (Notes.) (Laff.
II, the notes on pp. 218-219.)]

[Footnote 3114: Decision of the Council of State, Pluviose 5, year VIII
(Jan. 25, 1800).]

[Footnote 3115: Forneron, "Histoire generale des emigres," II., 374.
In 1800, the army of Conde still comprised 1007 officers and 5840
volunteers.]

[Footnote 3116: Decrees of Brumaire 3, year IV, and of Frimaire 9, year
VI. (Cf. "The Revolution," pp.433, 460.)]

[Footnote 3117: Constitution of Frimaire 22, year VIII. (December 13,
1799), article 93. "The French nation declares that in no case will it
suffer the return of the Frenchmen who, having abandoned their country
since the 14th of July 1789, are not comprised in the exceptions made to
the laws rendered against emigres. It interdicts every new exception in
this respect."]

[Footnote 3118: Opinion of the Council of State, Dec. 25, 1799.]

[Footnote 3119: Resolution of Dec. 26, 1799.--Two ultra-Jacobins, exiled
after Thermidor, are added to the list, Barere and Vadier, undoubtedly
by way of compensation and not to let it appear that the scales inclined
too much on one side.]

[Footnote 3120: Resolution of Dec. 30, 1799.]

[Footnote 3121: Resolutions of February 26, March 2, and March 3, 1800.]

[Footnote 3122: Thibaudeau, "Memoires sur le Consulat," 199. (Stated
by the First Consul at Regnault at a meeting of the council of state,
Aug.12, 1801.) "I am glad to hear the denunciation of striking off
names. How many have you yourselves not asked for? It could not be
otherwise. Everybody has some relation or friend on the lists."]

[Footnote 3123: Thibaudeau. ibid. (Speech by the First Consul.) "Never
have there been lists of emigres; there are only lists of absentees.
The proof of this is that names have always been struck off. I have seen
members of the Convention and even generals on the lists. Citizen Monge
was inscribed."]

[Footnote 3124: Thibaudeau, ibid., 97.--"The minister of police made a
great hue and cry over the arrest and sending back of a few emigres
who returned without permission, or who annoyed the buyers of their
property, while, at the same time, it granted surveillance to all
who asked for it, paying no attention to the disti