"Threats of setting fire to M.de Fosses' two remaining farm-houses are made."-- Letter of M.de Fosses, Jan.

28, 1793.
He states that he has entered no complaint, and if anybody has done so for him he is much displeased.

"A suit might place me in the greatest danger, from my knowledge of the state of the public mind in Coucy, and of what the guilty have done and will do to affect the minds of the people in the seventeen communes concerned in the devastation."] [Footnote 3273: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3249 letter of M.de Gouy to Roland, Sept.21.

(An admirable letter, which, if copied entire, would show the character of the gentleman of 1789.

Lots of heart, many illusions and much verbosity.) The first attack was made Sept.