The "Marseillaise" was composed in April, 1792.] [Footnote 2380: Mercure de France, Nov.

23, 1791.] [Footnote 2381: Philippe de Segur, "Memoires," I.( at Fresnes, a village situated about seven leagues from Paris, a few days after Sep.

2, 1792).

"A band of these demagogues pursued a large farmer of this place, suspected of royalism and denounced as a monopoliser because he was rich.

These madmen had seized him, and, without any other form of trial, were about to put an end to him, when my father ran up to them.