Near Morley in Barrois, the abbey of Auvey, of the Cistercian order, "was always, for every village in the neighborhood, a bureau of charity." At Airvault, in Poitou, the municipal officers, the colonel of the national guard, and numbers of "peasants and inhabitants" demand the conservation of the regular canons of St.Augustin.

"Their existence," says the petition, "is absolutely essential, as well for our town as for the country, and we should suffer an irreparable loss in their suppression." The municipality and permanent council of Soissons writes that the establishment of Saint-Jean des Vignes "has always earnestly claimed its share of the public charges.

This is the institution which, in times of calamity, welcomes homeless citizens and provides them with subsistence.

It alone bears the expenses of the assembly of the bailiwick at the time of the election of deputies to the National Assembly.

A company of the regiment of Armagnac is actually lodged under its roof.