7129. (Seine-et-Oise, canton of Jouy,
Pluviose 8, year IV.) "Forty-nine out of fifty citizens seem to have
the greatest desire to profess the Catholic faith."--Ibid., canton of
Dammartin, Pluviose 7, year IV.) "The Catholic religion has full
sway; those who do not accept it are frowned upon."--At the same date
(Pluviose 9, year IV), the commissioner at Chamarande writes: "I see
persons giving what they call blessed bread and yet having nothing to
eat."]

[Footnote 3182: Ibid., cartons 3144 and 3145, No. 1004, missions of the
councillors of state, year IX.--(Report of Barbe-Marbois on Brittany.)
"At Vannes, I entered the cathedral on the jour des Rois, where the
constitutional mass was being celebrated; there were only one priest
and two or three poor people there. A little farther on I found a large
crowd barring the way in the street; these people could not enter a
chapel which was already full and where the mass called for by the
Catholics was being celebrated.--Elsewhere, the churches in the town
were likewise deserted, and the people went to hear mass by a priest
just arrived from England."--(Report by Francais de Nantes on Vaucluse
and Provence.) One tenth of the population follows the constitutional
priests; the rest follow the returned emigre priests; the latter have
on their side the rich and influential portion of society."--(Report of
Lacuee on Paris and the seven surrounding departments.) "The situation
of the unsubmissive priests is more advantageous than that of the
submissive priests.... The latter are neglected and abandoned; it is
not fashionable to join them... (The former) are venerated by their
adherents as martyrs; they excite tender interest, especially from the
women."]

[Footnote 3183: Archives nationales, cartons 3144 and 3145, No.1004,
missions of the councillors of state, year IX.--(Report by Lacuee.) "The
wants of the people in this way seem at this moment to be confined... to
a vain spectacle, to ceremonies: going to mass, the sermon and vespers,
which is all very well; but confession, the communion, fasting, doing
without meat, is not common anywhere.... In the country, where there are
no priests, the village schoolmaster officiates, and people are content;
they would prefer bells without priests rather than priests without
bells."--This regret for bells is very frequent and survives even in
the cantons which are lukewarm.--(Creuse, Pluviose 10, year IV.) "They
persist in replanting the cr