(Seine-et-Oise, canton of Jouy, Pluviose 8, year IV.) "Forty-nine out of fifty citizens seem to have the greatest desire to profess the Catholic faith."-- Ibid., canton of Dammartin, Pluviose 7, year IV.) "The Catholic religion has full sway; those who do not accept it are frowned upon."-- At the same date (Pluviose 9, year IV), the commissioner at Chamarande writes: "I see persons giving what they call blessed bread and yet having nothing to eat."] [Footnote 3182: Ibid., cartons 3144 and 3145, No.

1004, missions of the councillors of state, year IX .-- (Report of Barbe-Marbois on Brittany.) "At Vannes, I entered the cathedral on the jour des Rois, where the constitutional mass was being celebrated; there were only one priest and two or three poor people there.

A little farther on I found a large crowd barring the way in the street; these people could not enter a chapel which was already full and where the mass called for by the Catholics was being celebrated .-- Elsewhere, the churches in the town were likewise deserted, and the people went to hear mass by a priest just arrived from England."-- (Report by Francais de Nantes on Vaucluse and Provence.) One tenth of the population follows the constitutional priests; the rest follow the returned emigre priests; the latter have on their side the rich and influential portion of society."-- (Report of Lacuee on Paris and the seven surrounding departments.) "The situation of the unsubmissive priests is more advantageous than that of the submissive priests....

The latter are neglected and abandoned; it is not fashionable to join them...

(The former) are venerated by their adherents as martyrs; they excite tender interest, especially from the women."] [Footnote 3183: Archives nationales, cartons 3144 and 3145, No.1004, missions of the councillors of state, year IX .-- (Report by Lacuee.) "The wants of the people in this way seem at this moment to be confined...