3327 ([return])
[ Moniteur, VI. 556. Letter of M d'Aymar, commodore, November 18, 1790.]
3328 ([return])
[ Mercure de France, May 28, and June 16, 1791 (letters from Cahors and Castelnau, May 18).]
3329 ([return])
[ Mercure de France, number of May 28, 1791. At the festival of the Federation, M. de Massy would not order his cavalry to put their chapeaux on the points of their swords, which was a difficult maneuver. He was accused of treason to the nation on account of this, and obliged to leave Tulle for several months.—"Archives Nationales," F7, 3204. Extract from the minutes of the tribunal of Tulle, May 10, 1791.]
3330 ([return])
[ "Archives Nationales," F7, 3215, "Minutes of the meeting des Officiers Municipaux de Brest," June 23, 1791.]
3331 ([return])
[ "Mémoires de Cuvier" ("Eloges Historiques," by Flourens), I, 177. Cuvier, who was then in Havre (1788), had pursued the higher studies in a German administrative school. "M. de Surville," he says, an officer in the Artuis regiment, "has one of the must refined minds and most amiable characters I ever encountered. There were a good many of this sort among his comrades, and I am always astonished how such men could vegetate in the obscure ranks of an infantry regiment.">[