"The rights of man are derived from nature alone, and are independent of human conventions."] [Footnote 2134: Report by Merlin de Douai, February 8, 1790, p.2 .-- Malouet, II, 51.] [Footnote 2135: Dumont, 133 .-- De Montlosier, I, 355, 361.] [Footnote 2136: Bertrand de Molleville, II.

221 (according to a police report) .-- Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution," I.215.

(Report of the agent Dutard, May 13, 1793)--Lacretelle, "Dix Ans d'Epreuves," p.35.

"It was about midnight when we went out in the rain, sleet, and snow, in the piercing cold, to the church of the Feuillants, to secure places for the galleries of the Assembly, which we were not to occupy till noon on the following day.

We were obliged, moreover, to contend for them with a crowd animated by passions, and even by interests, very different from our own.