[Footnote 1307: "Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. (Letter of the clergy, consuls, présidial-councillors and principal merchants of Puy-en-Velay, September 16, 1789.)--H. 1453. (letter of the Intendant or Alençon, July 18th). "I must not leave you in ignorance of the multiplied outbreaks we have in all parts of my jurisdiction. The impunity with which they flatter themselves, because the judges are afraid of irritating the people by examples of severity, only emboldens them. Mischief-makers, confounded with honest folks, spread false reports about particular persons whom they accuse of concealing grain, or of not belonging to the Third-Estate, and, under this pretext, they pillage their houses, taking whatever they can find, the owners only avoiding death by flight."] [Footnote 1308: A body of magistrates forming one of the lower tribunals.] [Footnote 1309: "Archives Nationales," H. 942. (Observations of M. de Ballainvilliers, October 30, 1789.)] [Footnote 1310: "Archives Nationales," D, XXIX. 1. Letter of the municipal assembly of Louviers, the end of August, 1789.--Letter of the communal assembly of Saint-Bris (bailiwick of Auxerre), September 25th.--Letter of the municipal officers of Ricey-Haut, near Bar-sur-Seine, August 25th; of the Chevalier d'Allouville, September 8th.] [Footnote 1311: "Archives Nationales," D, XXIX. I. Letter of M. Briand-Delessart (Angoulême, August 1st).--Of M. Bret, Lieutenant-General of the provostship of Mardogne, September 5th.--Of the Chevalier de Castellas (Auvergue), September 15th (relating to the night between the 2nd and 3rd of August).--Madame Campan, II. 65.] [Footnote 1312: Arthur Young, "Voyages in France," July 24th and 31st, August 13th and 19th.] [Footnote 1313: De Bouillé, 108.--"Archives Nationales," KK. 1105. Correspondence of M. deThiard, September 20, 1789 (apropos of one hundred guns given to the town of Saint-Brieuc). "They are not of the slightest use, but this passion for arms is a temporary epidemic which must be allowed to subside of itself. People are determined to believe in brigands and in enemies, whereas neither exist."--September 25th, "Vanity alone impels them, and the pride of having cannon is their sole motive."]