Bourdon is an excellent patriot, a man of sensibility, but, in his fits of intoxication, he gives himself up to impracticable views.

"Let those rascally administrators," he says, "be arrested!" Then, going to the window,--he heard a runaway horse galloping in the street--"That's another anti-revolutionary! Let 'em all be arrested!"-- Cf.

"Souvenirs," by General Pelleport, p.21.

At Perpignan, he attended the fete of Reason.

"The General in command of the post made an impudent speech, even to the most repulsive cynicisim.
Some prostitutes, well known to this wretch, filled one of the tribunes; they waved their handkerchiefs and shouted "Vive la Raison!" After listening to similar harangues by representatives Soubrang and Michaud, Pelleport, although half cured (of his wound) returns to camp: "I could not breathe freely in town, and did not think that I was safe until facing the enemy along with my comrades."] [Footnote 32109: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.332; correspondence of secret agents, October, 1793.