[99] Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 149; Narrative by Marat,114. Bulletin of the revolutionary tribunal, session of the Convention.
[100] Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 358, article in the Chronique de Paris;358, article by Marat. - Schmidt, I. 184. Report by Dutard, May 5. --Paris, Histoire de Joseph Lebon," I. 81. Letter by Robespierre, Jr., May 7.
[101] Buchez et Roux, XXV. 240 and 246. Protest of the Mail section, of the electoral body of the Arsenal, Marais, Gravelliers, and Arcis sections. (The Convention, session of April 2; the commune, session of April 2.) -- XXVI. 358 Protests of the sections of Bon-Conseil and the Unité, (May 5). -- XXVII. 71. Defeat of the anarchists in the section of Butté-des-Moulins. "A great many sections openly show a determination to put anarchy down." (Patriote Fran?ais, May 15). -Ibid., 137. Protests of the Panthéon Fran?ais, Piques, Mail, and several other sections (Patriote Fran?ais, May 19). - Ibid., 175.
Protest of the Fraternité section (session of the Convention, May 23).
[102] Schmidt, I. 189. Dutard, May 6.
[103] Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 218. Official report of the reunion of the two sections of the Lombards and Bon-Conseil (April 12), "by which the two said sections promise and swear union, aid, fraternity, and mutual help, in case the aristocracy are disposed to destroy liberty."-- "Consequently," says the Bon-Conseil section, "many of the citizens of the Lombards section, justly alarmed at the disturbances occasioned by the evil-disposed, came and proffered their assistance." --Adhesion of the section of Les Amis de la Patrie. -- Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 138. (Article of the Patriote Fran?ais, May 19): "This brigandage is called assembly of combined sections." -- Ibid., 236, May 26, session of the commune. "Deputations of the Montreuil, Quinze-Vingts and Droits de l'Homme sections came to the assistance of the Arsenal patriots; the aristocrats took to flight, leaving their hats behind them." -- Schmidt, I. 213, 313 (Dutard, May 13 and 27). Violent treatment of the moderates in the Bon-Conseil and Arsenal sections;"struck with chairs, several persons wounded, one captain carried off on a bench; the gutter-jumpers and dumpy shopkeepers cleared out, leaving the sans-culottes masters of the field." -- Meillan, 111. --Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 237, session of the Jacobin club, May 26. "In the section of Butte-des-Moulins the patriots, finding they were not in force, seized the chairs and drove the aristocrats out."[104] Buchez et Roux, 78, XXVII. On the juge-de-paix Roux, carried off at night and imprisoned. April 16. - Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 220, on the vice-president Sagnier, May 10. - Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 231, May 26, on the five citizens of the Unité section arrested by the revolutionary committee of the section "for having spoken against Robespierre and Marat."[105] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 154. Speech of Léonard Bourdon to the Jacobins, May 20.
[106] Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 3. Address drawn up by the commissaries of the 48 sections approved of by 35 sections, also by the commune, and presented to the Convention April 15. - Others have preceded it, like pilot ballons. - Ibid., XXV. 319. Petition of the Bon-Conseil, Alpril 8. - XXV. 320. Petition of the section of the Halleau-Blé, April 10.
[107] Buchez et Roux, XXVL 83. Speech by Vergniaud to the convention, session of April 20. "These facts are accepted. Nobody can contradict them. More than 10,000 witnesses would confirm them." -- There are the same proceedings at Lyons Jan.13, 1792, against the petition far an appeal to the people (Guillon de Montléon, I.145, 155). The official report of the Jacobins claims that the petition obtained 40,215signatures. "The petition was first signed by about 200 clubbists, who pretended to be the people. . . They spread the report among the people that all who would not sign the address would be blacklisted or proscribed. That's why they had desks set up in all the public squares, and seized by the arm all who came, and forced them to sign.
As this approach did not prove fruitful they made children ten years of age, women, and ignorant rustics put down their name." They were told that the object was to put down the price of bread. "I swear to you that this address is the work a hundred persons at most; the great majority of the citizens of Lyons desire to avail themselves of their own sovereignty in the judgment of Louis." (Letter of David of Lyons to the president of the convention, Jan. 16.)[108] "Fragment," by Lanjuinais (in the memoirs of Durand-Maillane, p.
297).
[109] Meillan, 113.
[110] Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 3!9 (May 12). - Meillan, 113.
[111] Buchez et Roux, XVI. 327. On being informed of this the crowd sent new deputies, the latter stating in relation to the others: "We do not recognise them."[112] Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 143.
[113] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 175, May 23.
[114] Schmidt, I. 212. Report of Dutard, May 13. - I. 218. "A plot is really under way, and many heads are singled out." (Terrasson, May 13.)[115] Buchez et Roux, XXVII 9. Speech of Guadet to the Convention, May 14.
[116] Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 2. Patriote Fran?ais, May 13.
[117] Schmidt, I 242. Report of Dutard, May 18. - Also 245.
[118] Schmidt, I 254. Report of Dutard, May 19.
[119] Bergoeing, Chatry, Dubosq, "Pièces recueillies par la Commission des Douze et publiées à Caen." June 28, 1793 (in the "Mémoires" of Meillan, pp. 176-198). Attempts at murder had already occurred.
"Lanjuinais came near being killed. Many of the deputies were insulted and threatened. The armed force joins with the malefactors; we have accordingly no means of repression." (Mortimer-Ternaux, VII.562, letter of the deputy Michel to his constituents, May 20.)[120] Bergoeing, "Pièces, etc." -- Meillan, pp. 39 and 40. -- The depositions are all made by eye witnesses. The propositions for the massacre were made in the meetings at the town-hall, May 19, 20 and 21, and at the Cordeliers club May 22 and 23.