During my stay in some of the villages I was not disturbed by any fear or suspicion whatever....

The tranquility they now enjoy and the cessation of persecutions keep them from insurrection."] [Footnote 3106: Archives nationales, F7,3273 (Reports by Gen.

Ferino, Pluviose, year IX, with a table of verdicts by the military commission since Floreal, year VIII.) The commission mentions 53 assassinations, 3 rapes, 44 pillagings of houses, by brigands in Vaucluse, Drome, and the Lower Alps; 66 brigands taken in the act are shot, 87 after condemnation, and 6, who are wounded, die in the hospital .-- Rocquain, ibid., p.

17, (Reports of Francais, from Nantes, on his mission in the 8th military division.) "The South may be considered as purged by the destruction of about 200 brigands who have been shot.

There remains only three or four bands of 7 or S men each."] [Footnote 3107: Three classes of insurrectionary peasants or marauders .-- Tr.] [Footnote 3108: Archives Nationales, F7, 7152 (on the prolongation of brigandage).