Public spirit it so perverted, so opposed to the constitutional regime, that a miracle only will bring them within the pale of freedom."-- Ibid., F7, 3199.

(Similar documents on the department of Bouches-du-Rhone.) Outrages continue here far down into the consulate, in spite of the vigor and multitude of military executions .-- (Letter of the sub-prefect of Tarascon, Germinal 15, year IX.) "In the commune of Eyragues, yesterday, at eight o'clock, a band of masked brigands surrounded the mayor's house, while some of them entered it and shot this public functionary without anybody daring to render him any assistance....

Three-quarters of the inhabitants of Eyragues are royalists."-- In series F7, 7152 and those following may be found an enumeration of political crimes classified by department and by the month, especially for Messidor, year VII.] [Footnote 2116: Barere, representative of Hautes Pyrenees, had preserved a good deal of credit in this remote department, especially in the district of Argeles, with populations which knew nothing about the "Mountain." In 1805, the electors presented him as a candidate for the legislative body and the senate; in 1815, they elected him deputy.] [Footnote 2117: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France.

in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.

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