[14] Decree of May 17, 1791. -- Malouet, XII. 161. 'There was nothing left to us but to make one great mistake, which we did not fail to do."[15] A few months after this, on the election of a mayor for Paris, the court voted against Lafayette, and for Pétion[16] M. de Montlosier, "Mémoires," II. 309. "As far as concerns myself, truth compels me to say, that I was stuck on the head by three carrots and two cabbages only." -- Archives of the prefecture of police (decisions of the police court, May 15, 1790). Moniteur, V.
427. "The prompt attendance of the members at the hour of meeting, in spite of the hooting and murmurings of the crowd, seemed to convince the people that this was yet another conspiracy against liberty."[17] This is what is, today in 1998, taking place whenever any political faction, disliked by the Socialists, try to arrange a meeting. (SR).
[18] Malout, II. 50. - Mercure de France, Jan. 7, Feb. 5, and April 9, 1791 (letter of a member of the Monarchical Club[19] Ferrières, II. 222. "The Jacobin Club sent five or six hundred trusty men, armed with clubs," besides "about a hundred national guards, and some of the Palais-Royal prostitutes."[20] Journal des Amis de la Constitution." Letter of the CaféNational! Club at Bordeaux, Jan. 20, 1791. -- Letters of the "Friends of the Constitution," at Brives and Cambray, Jan. 19, 1791.
[21] "The French Revolution," I. pp. 243, 324.
[22] Mercure de France, Dec.18, 1790, Jan. 17, June 8, and July 14, 1791. -- Moniteur, VI. 697. -- "Archives Nationales," F7, 3,193.
Letter from the Directory of the department of Aveyron, April 20, 1792. Narrative of events after the end of 1790. -- May 22, 1791, the club of "The Friends of Order and Peace" is burned by the Jacobins, the fire lasting all night and a part of the next day. (Official report of the Directory of Milhau, May 22, 1791).
[23] "The French Revolution," I. 256, 307.
[24] Mercure de France, Dec. 14, 1790 (letter from Villeneuve-St.-Georges, Nov.29).
[25] "Archives Nationales," II. 1,453. Correspondence of M. Bercheny.
Letter from Pau, Feb. 7, 1790. "No one has any idea of the actual state of things, in this once delightful town. People are cutting each other's throats. Four duels have taken place within 48 hours, and ten or a dozen good citizens have been obliged to hide themselves for three days past"[26] "Archives Nationales," F7, 3,249. Memorial on the actual condition of the town and district of Mortagne, department of Orne (November, 1791).
[27] Revolutionary song with the refrain: "Les aristocrates, à la lanterne, tous les aristocrates on les pendra" (all the aristocrats will hang). (SR)[28] On the 15th of August, 1791, the mother-superior of the H?tel-Dieu hospital is forcibly carried off and placed in a tavern, half a league from the town, while the rest of the nuns are driven out and replaced by eight young girls from the town. Among other motives that require notice is the hostility of two pharmacists belonging to the club; in the Hotel-Dieu the nuns, keeping a pharmacy from which they sold drugs at cost and thereby brought themselves into competition with the two pharmacists.