All means are proper against an intractable bishop or cure; not only the law which they aggravate through their forced interpretation of it and through their arbitrary verdicts, but also the riots which they stir up by their instigation and which they sanction by their toleration.[2280] He is driven out of his parish, consigned to the county town, and kept in a safe place.

The Directory of Aisne denounces him as a disturber of the public peace, and forbids him, under severe penalties, from administering the sacraments.

The municipality of Cahors shuts up particular churches and orders the nonjuring ecclesiastics to leave the town in twenty-four hours.

The electoral corps of Lot denounces them publicly as "ferocious brutes," incendiaries, and provokers of civil war.

The Directory of the Bas-Rhin banishes them to Strasbourg or to fifteen leagues from the frontier.
At Saint-Leon the bishop is forced to fly.