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[ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3198. Minutes of the meeting of the municipal officers of Arles, September 2, 1791.—Letters of the Royal Commissioners and of the National Assembly, October 24, November 6, 14, 17, 21, and December 21, 1791.—The Commissioners, to be impartial, attend in turn a mass by a nonjuring priest and one by a priest of the opposite side. "The church is full" with the former and always empty with the latter.]
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[ "Mémoire" of M. Mérilhon, for Froment, passim.—Report of M. Alquier, p. 54.—De Dampmartin, I. 208.]
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[—De Dampmartin, I. 208.They would exclaim to the catholic peasants: "Allons, mes enfants, Vive le Roi!" (shouts of enthusiasm): "those wretches of democrats, let us make an example of them, and restore the sacred rights of the throne and the altar!"—"As you please," replied the rustics in their patois, "but we must hold fast to the Revolution, for there are some good things about it."—They remain calm, refuse to march to the assistance of Uzès, and withdraw into their mountains on the first sign of the approach of the National Guard.]
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[ This is what the author Soljenitsyne observed about his Russian countrymen in an interview with M. Pivot in the French television in 1998. (SR.)]
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[ Dauban, "La Demagogie à Paris," p.598; Letter of M. de Brissac, August 25, 1789.]