I have myself examined several cases in which the courts of Marseilles and Toulon decided against the plain text the law and with criminal partiality .-- Archives nationales, series F7, Reports "on the situation, on the spirit of the public," in many hundreds of towns, cantons, and departments, from the year III to the year VIII and after.] [Footnote 2106: Cf.

"The Revolution," III., book IX., ch.

I .-- Rocquain, passim .-- Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution francaise," III., parts 9 and 10 .-- Archives nationales, F7, 3250 (Letter of the commissioner of the executive directory, Fructidor 23, year VII): "Armed mobs on the road between Saint-Omer and Arras have dared fire on the diligences and rescue from the gendarmerie the drawn conscripts."-- Ibid., F7, 6565.
Only on Seine-inferiure, of which the following are some of the reports of the gendarmerie for one year .-- Messidor, year VII, seditious mobs of conscripts and others in the cantons of Motteville and Doudeville.
"What shows the perverted spirit of the communes of Gremonville and of Heronville is that none of the inhabitants will make any declaration, while it is impossible that they should not have been in the rebels' secrets."-- Similar mobs in the communes of Guerville, Millebose,and in the forest of Eu: "It is stated that they have leaders, and that drilling goes on under their orders .-- Vendemiarie 27, year VIII.) "Twenty-five armed brigands or drafted men in the cantons of Reaute and Bolbec have put farmers to ransom."-- (Nivose 12~ year VIII.) In the canton of Cuny another band of brigands do the same thing .-- (Germinal 14, year VIII.) Twelve brigands stop the diligence between Neufchatel and Rouen; a few days after, the diligence between Rouen and Paris is stopped and three of the escort are killed .-- Analogous scenes and mobs in the other departments.] [Footnote 2107: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.

I., 260.

Under the Directory," one day, in order to dispatch a special courier, the receipts of the Opera had to be taken because they were in coin.