[Footnote 2136: Bertrand de Molleville, II. 221 (according to a police report).--Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Révolution," I. 215. (Report of the agent Dutard, May 13, 1793)--Lacretelle, "Dix Ans d'Epreuves," p.35. "It was about midnight when we went out in the rain, sleet, and snow, in the piercing cold, to the church of the Feuillants, to secure places for the galleries of the Assembly, which we were not to occupy till noon on the following day. We were obliged, moreover, to contend for them with a crowd animated by passions, and even by interests, very different from our own. We were not long in perceiving that a considerable part of the galleries was under pay, and that the scenes of cruelty which gave pain to us were joy to them. I cannot express the horror I felt on hearing those women, since called tricoteuses, take a delight in the already homicidal doctrines of Robespierre, enjoying his sharp voice and feasting their eyes on his ugly face, the living type of envy." (The first months of 1790.)] [Footnote 2137: Moniteur, V. 237 (July 26, 1790); V. 594. (September 8, 1790); V. 631 (September 12, 1790); VI. 310 (October 6, 1790). (Letter of the Abbé Peretti.)] [Footnote 2138: De Ferrières, II. 75.--Moniteur, VI. 373 (September 6, 1790).--M. de Virieu. "Those who insult certain members and hinder the freedom of debate by hooting or applause must be silenced. Is it the three hundred spectators who are to be our judges, or the nation?" M. Chasset, President: "Monsieur opinionist, I call you to order. You speak of hindrances to a free vote; there has never been anything of the kind in this Assembly."] [Footnote 2139: Sauzay, I 140. Letter of M. Lompré, liberal deputy, to M. Séguin, chanoine (towards the end of November, 1789). "The service becomes more difficult every day; we have become objects of popular fury, and, when no other resource was left to us to avoid the tempest but to get rid of the endowments of the clergy, we yielded to force. It had become a pressing necessity, and I should have been sorry to have had you still here, exposed to the outrages and violence with which I have been repeatedly threatened."] [Footnote 2140: Mercure de France, Nos. of January 15, 1791; October 2, 1790; May 14,1791.--Buchez and Roux, V. 343 (April 13, 1790); VII. 76 (September 2, 1790); X. 225 ( June 21, 1791).--De Montlosier, I. 357.--Moniteur, IV, 427.] [Footnote 2141: Archives of the Police, exposed by the Committee of the district of Saint-Roch. Judgment of the Police Tribunal, May 15, 1790.] [Footnote 2142: Malouet, II. 68.--De Montlosier, II. 217, 257 (Speech of M. Lavie, September 18, 1791).] [Footnote 2143: I.e. members of the old local parlements.] [Footnote 2144: Mercure, October 1, 1791. (Article by Mallet du Pan.)] [Footnote 2145: Malouet II. 66. "Those only who were not intimidated by insults or threats, nor by actual blows, could come forward as opponents."] [Footnote 2146: Buchez and Roux, X. 432, 465.]