Memorial on the actual condition of the town and district of Mortagne, department of Orne (November, 1791).] [Footnote 2127: Revolutionary song with the refrain: "Les aristocrates, a la lanterne, tous les aristocrates on les pendra" (all the aristocrats will hang).

(SR)] [Footnote 2128: On the 15th of August, 1791, the mother-superior of the Hotel-Dieu hospital is forcibly carried off and placed in a tavern, half a league from the town, while the rest of the nuns are driven out and replaced by eight young girls from the town.

Among other motives that require notice is the hostility of two pharmacists belonging to the club; in the Hotel-Dieu the nuns, keeping a pharmacy from which they sold drugs at cost and thereby brought themselves into competition with the two pharmacists.] [Footnote 2129: Cf.

"Archives Nationales," DXXIX.13.Letter of the municipal officers and notables of Champoeuil to the administrators of Seine-et-Oise, concerning elections, June 17, 1791 .-- Similar letters, from various other parishes, among them that of Charcon, June 16: "They have the honor to inform you that, at the time of the preceding primary meetings, they were exposed to the greatest danger; that the cure of Charcon, their pastor, was repeatedly stabbed with a bayonet, the marks of which he will carry to his grave.

The mayor, and several other inhabitants of Charcon, escaped the same peril with difficulty."-- Ibid., letters from the administrators of Hautes-Alpes to the National Assembly (September, 1791), on the disturbances in the electoral assembly of Gap, August 29, 1791.] [Footnote 2130: Police searches of private homes.