Pescheu; while running along the road from Belfort to Porentruy, is seen by a captain of the volunteers, riding along the same road with other officers; demanding his gun, he aimed at M.Pescheur and shot him."] [Footnote 3283: "Histoire de Chalons-sur-Marne et de ses monuments," by L.Barbat, pp.

420, 425] [Footnote 3284: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3207.

Letter of the directory of the Cote d'Or, Aug.

28 and Sept.26.Address of the Beaune municipality, Sept.2.Letter of M.Jean Sallier, Oct.

9: "Allow me to appeal to you for justice and to interest yourself in behalf of my brother, myself, and five servants, who on the 14th of September last, at the order of the municipality of La Roche-en-Bressy, where we have lived for three years, were arrested by the national guard of Saulieu, and, first imprisoned here in this town, were on the 18th transferred to Semur, no reason for our detention being given, and where we have in vain demanded a trial from the directory of the district, which body, making no examination or inquiry into our case, sent us on the 25th, at great expense, to Dijon, where the department has imprisoned us again without, as before, giving any reason therefore."-- The directory of the department writes "the communes of the towns and of the country arrest persons suspected by them, and instead of caring for these themselves, send them to the district"-- Such arbitrary imprisonment multiply towards the end of 1792 and early in 1793.