[Footnote 2117: This is what is, today in 1998, taking place whenever any political faction, disliked by the Socialists, try to arrange a meeting. (SR).]
[Footnote 2118: Malout, II. 50.--Mercure de France, Jan. 7, Feb. 5, and April 9, 1791 (letter of a member of the Monarchical Club)]
[Footnote 2119: 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."]
[Footnote 2120: "Journal des Amis de la Constitution." Letter of the Café National! Club at Bordeaux, Jan. 20, 1791.--Letters of the "Friends of the Constitution," at Brives and Cambray, Jan. 19, 1791.]
[Footnote 2121: "The French Revolution," I. pp. 243, 324.]
[Footnote 2122: 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).]
[Footnote 2123: "The French Revolution," I. 256, 307.]
[Footnote 2124: Mercure de France, Dec. 14, 1790 (letter from Villeneuve-St.-Georges, Nov.29).]
[Footnote 2125: "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"]
[Footnote 2126: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3,249. Memorial on the actual condition of the town and district of Mortagne, department of Orne (November, 1791).]
[Footnote 2127: Revolutionary song with the refrain: "Les aristocrates, à la lanterne, tous les aristocrates on les pendra" (all the aristocrats will hang). (SR)]
[Footnote 2128: On the 15th of August, 1791, the mother-superior of the Hôtel-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.]