Saint-Chely, capital of the district, a few armed ruffians succeed in forming the primary meeting and in substituting their own election for that of eight parishes, whose frightened citizens who withdrew from it...

At Langogne, chief town of the canton and district, out of more than 400 active citizens, 22 or 23 at most--just what one would suppose them to be when their presence drove away the rest--alone formed the meeting."] [Footnote 1213: This power, with its gratifications, is thus shown, Beugnot, I.140, 147.

"On the publication of the decrees of August 4, the committee of surveillance of Montigny, reinforced by all the patriots of the country, came down like a torrent on the barony of Choiseul, and exterminated all the hares and partridges...

They fished out the ponds.

At Mandres we find, in the best room of the inn, a dozen peasants gathered around a table decked with tumblers and bottles, amongst which we noticed an inkstand, pens, and something resembling a register.--'I don't know what they are about,' said the landlady, 'but there they are, from morning till night, drinking, swearing, and storming away at everybody, and they say that they are a committee.'"] [Footnote 1214: Albert Babeau, I.206, 242 .-- The first meeting of the revolutionary committee of Troyes in the cemetery of St.Jules, August, 1789.