The citizen mayor especially was treated most outrageously by the said gunners...

forcing him to dance on the Place d'armes, to which they resorted with violins and where they remained until midnight, rudely pushing and hauling him about, treating him as an aristocrat, clapping the red cap on his head, with constant threats of cutting it off and that of every aristocrat in the town, a threat they swore to carry out the next day, openly stating, especially two or three amongst them, that they had massacred the Paris prisoners on the 2nd of September, and that it cost them nothing to massacre."] [Footnote 3252: Summaries, in the order of their date or locality, and similar to those about to be placed before the reader, sometimes occur in these files.

I pursue the same course as the clerk, in conformity with Roland's methodical habits.] [Footnote 3253: Aug.

17, 1792 (Moniteur, XIII, 383, report of M.
Emmery).] [Footnote 3254: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3271.

Letter of the administrators of Tarn, July 21.] [Footnote 3255: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3234.