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      3229 (return) [ Decree of September 3, 1792.]

      3230 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268 and 3269. Petition of the citizens of Montfort-l'Amaury, Saint-Léger, Gros-Rouvre, Gelin, Laqueue, and Méré, to the citizens of Rambouillet.]

      3231 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3230. Letter of an administrator of the district of Vendôme, with the deliberation of the commune of Vendôme, November 24, 1792.]

      3232 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3255. Letter of the administrators of the Department of Seine-Inférieure, Octobers 23, 1792.—Letters of the Special Committee of Rouen, October 22 and 23, 1792: "The more the zeal and patriotism of the cultivators is stimulated, the more do they seem determined to avoid the market-places, which are always in a State of absolute destitution."]

      3233 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3265. Letter of David, a cultivator, October 20, 1792.—Letter of the Department Administrators, October 13, 1792, etc.—Letter (printed) of the minister to the convention, November 4.—Proclamation of the Provisional Executive council, October 31, 1792. (The setier of grain of two hundred and forty pounds is sold at 60 francs in the south, and at half that sum in the north.)]

      3234 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3255. Letters of Bonnemant, September 11, 1792; of Laussel, September 22, 1792.]

      3235 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," H, 1453. Correspondence of M. de Bercheny, July 28, October 24 and 26, 1790.—The same disposition lasted. An insurrection occurred in Issoudun after the three days of July, 1830, against the combined imposts. Seven or eight thousand wine growers burnt the archives and tax-offices and dragged an employee through the streets, shouting out at each street-lamp, "Let him be hung!" The general sent to repress the outbreak entered the town only through a capitulation; the moment he reached the Hôtel-de-Ville a man of the Faubourg de Rome put his pruning-book around his neck, exclaiming, "No more clerks where there is nothing to do!"]

      3236 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3203. Letter of the Directory of Cher, April 9, 1790.—Ibid, F7, 3255. Letter of August 4, 1790. Verdict of the présidial, November 4, 1790.—Letter of the Municipality of Saint-Etienne, August 5, 1790.]

      3237 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3248. Letter of M. Sénac de Mejlhan, April 10, 1790.—Letter of the grands baillis, June 30, 1790.]

      3238 (return) [ Buchez and Roux, VI. 403. Report of Chabroud on the insurrection at Lyons, July 9 and 10, 1790.—Duvergier, "Collection des Décrets." Decrees of August 4 and 15, 1790.]

      3239 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3255. Letter of the Minister, July 2, 1790, to the Directory of Rhône-et-Loire. "The King is informed that, throughout your department, and especially in the districts of Saint-Etienne and Montbrison, license is carried to the extreme; that the judges dare not prosecute; that in many places the municipal officers are at the head of the disturbances; and that, in others, the National Guard do not obey requisitions."—Letter of September 5, 1790. "In the bourg of Thisy, brigands have invaded divers cotton-spinning establishments and partially destroyed them and after having plundered them, they have sold the goods by public auction."]

      3240 (return) [ Buchez and Roux, VI. 345. Report of M. Muguet, July 1, 1790.]

      3241 (return) [ Minutes of the meeting of the National Assembly. (Sitting of October 24, 1789.)—Decree of September 27, 1789, applicable the 1st of October. There are other alleviations applicable on the 1st of January, 1790.]

      3242 (return) [ Mercure de France, February 27, 1790. (Memorandum of the garde des sceaux, January 16.)—Observations of M. Necker on the report made by the Financial committee, at the sitting of March 12, 1790.]

      3243 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," H, 1453. Correspondence of M. de Bercheny, April 24, May 4 and 6, 1790: "It is much to be feared that the tobacco-tax will share the fate of the salt-tax."]

      3244 (return) [ Mercure de France, July 31, 1790 (sitting of July 10.) M. Lambert, Comptroller General of the Finances, informs the Assembly of "the obstacles which continual outbreaks, brigandage, and the maxims of anarchical freedom impose, from one end of France to the other, on the collection of the taxes. On one side, the people are led to believe that, if they stubbornly refuse a tax contrary to their rights, it abolition will be secured. Elsewhere, smuggling is openly carried on by force; the people favor it, while the National Guards refuse to act against the nation. In other places hatred is excited, and divisions between the troops and the overseers at the toll-houses: the latter are massacred, the bureaus are pillaged, and the prisons are forced open."—Memorandum from M. Necker to the National Assembly, July 21, 1790.]

      3245 (return) [ Decrees of March 21 and 22, 1790, applicable April 21 following.—Decrees of February 19 and March 2, 1791, applicable May 1 following.]

      3246 (return) [ De Goncourt, "La Societé Française pendant la Révolution," 204.—Maxime Du Camp, "Paris, sa vie et ses organes," VI. 11.]

      3247 (return) [ "Compte des Revenus et Dépenses au 1er Mai, 1789."—Memorandum of M. Necker, July 21, 1790.—Memoranda presented by M. de Montesquiou, September 9, 1791.—Comptes-rendus by the minister, Clavières, October 5, 1792, February 1, 1792.—Report of Cambon, February, 1793.]

      3248 (return) [ Boivin-Champeaux, 231.]

      3249 (return) [ Mercure de France, May 28, 1791. (Sitting of May 22.)—Speech of M. d'Allarde: "Burgundy has paid nothing belonging to 1790."]

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