Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 (of 6) 31/34 (SR).] [Footnote 2131: "The French Revolution," pp. 159, 160, 310, 323, 324 .-- Lauvergne, "Histoire du departement du Var," (August 23).] [Footnote 2132: '"Archives Nationales," F7, 3,198, deposition of Verand-Icard, an elector at Arles, Sep. 8, 1791 .-- Ibid., F7, 3,195. Two parties confront each other at the municipal elections of Barbantane, one headed by the Abbe Chabaud, brother of one of the Avignon brigands, composed of three or four townsmen, and of "the most impoverished in the country," and the other, three times as numerous, comprising all the land-owners, the substantial metayers and artisans, and all "who are most interested in a good administration" The question is, whether the Abbe Chabaud is to be mayor. |