[Footnote 2268: Ultramontane: Extreme in favoring the Pope's supremacy. (SR.)] [Footnote 2269: Sauzay, I. 168.] [Footnote 2270: Personal knowledge, as I visited Besançon four times between 1863 and 1867.] [Footnote 2271: Moniteur, sitting of May 30, 1790, and others following. (Report of Treilhard, speech by Robespierre.)] [Footnote 2272: Duvergier, laws of July 12th-August 14th; November 14-25, 1790; January 21-26, 1791.] [Footnote 2273: Moniteur, sitting of May 31, 1790. Robespierre, in covert terms, demands the marriage of priests.--Mirabeau prepared a speech in the same sense, concluding that every priest and monk should be able to contract marriage; on the priest or monk presenting himself with his bride before the curé, the latter should be obliged to give them the nuptial benediction etc. Mirabeau wrote, June 2, 1790: "Robespierre... has juggled me out of my motion on the marriage of priests."--In general the germ of all the laws of the Convention is found in the Constituent Assembly. (Ph. Plan, "Un Collaborateur de Mirabeau," p.56, 144.)] [Footnote 2274: Duvergier, laws of November 27th--December 26, 1790; February 5th, March 22nd, and April 5, 1791.--Moniteur, sitting of November 6, 1790, and those that follow, especially that of December 27th. "I swear to maintain with all my power the French Constitution and especially the decrees relating to the Civil Constitution of the clergy."--Cf. sitting of January 2, 1791, speech by the Bishop of Clermont.] [Footnote 2275: Duvergier, law of May 7, 1791, to maintain the right of nonjuring priests to perform mass in national or private edifices. (Demanded by Talleyrand and Sieyès.)] [Footnote 2276: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3235. Letter of M. de Château-Randon, deputy of la Lozère, May 28, 1791. After the decree of May 23rd, all the functionaries of the department handed in their resignations.] [Footnote 2277: Duvergier, law of May 21-29, 1791.] [Footnote 2278: Sauzay, I. 366, 538 to 593, 750.--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3235, Letter of M. de Chânteau-Randon, May 10, 1791.--Mercure, April 23rd, and April 16, 1701. Articles of Mallet du Pan, letter from Bordeaux, March 20, 1791.] [Footnote 2279: Buchez and Roux, XII, 77. Report of Gallois and Gensonné sent to La Vendée and the Deux Sévres (July 25, 1791).--" Archives Nationales," F7, 3253, letter of the Directory of the Bas-Rhin (letter of January 7, 1792).--" Le District de Machecoul de 1788 à 1793," by Lallier.--" Histoire de Joseph Lebon," by Paris.--Sauzay, vol. I. and II. in full.] [Footnote 2280: Mercure, January 15th, April 23rd, May 16th and 30th, June 1st, November 23rd, 1791.--"Le District de Machecoul," by Lallier, 173.--Sauzay, I. 295.--Lavirotte, "Annales d'Arnay-le-Duc" (February 5, 1792).--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3223. Petition of a number of the inhabitants of Montpellier, November 17, 1791.] [Footnote 2281: Duvergier, decree of November 29, 1791.--Mercure, November 30, 1791 (article by Mallet du Pan).]