[Footnote 1119: Moniteur, XVII., 40, 48, 72, 140, 175, 194, 263.
(Cf. Speeches by Chaumette, July 14, and Report by Gossoin, August
9).--Archives Nationales, B. II., 23. Negative votes in Ardèche 5, in
Aude 5, Moselle 5, Saône-et-Loire 5, Côte-d'Or 4, Creuse 4, Haut-Rhin
4, Gers 4, Haute-Garonne 3, Aube 2, Bouches-du-Rhône 2, Cantal 2,
Basses-Alpes 1, Haute-Marne 1, Haute-Vienne 1, Var 0, Seine 0.--The
details and circumstances of voting are curious. In the department
of Aube, at Troyes, the second section in agreement with the third,
excluded "suspects" from the vote. At Paris, the section "Gardes
Française," Fourcroy president, announces 1,714 voters, of which 1,678
are citizens and 36 citoyennes. In the "Mont Blanc" section, the
secretary signs as follows: Trone segretaire general de la semblé.]
[Footnote 1120: Moniteur, XVII., 375. (Session of the convention, August
11, 1793). Chabot: "I demand a law requiring every man who does not
appear at a primary meeting to give good reason for his absence;
also, that any man who has not favored the Constitution, be declared
ineligible to all constitutional franchises." Ibid., 50. (Meeting of the
Commune, July 4th). Leonard Bourdon demands, in the name of his section,
the Gravilliers, a register on which to inscribe those who accept
the Constitution, "in order that those who do not vote for it may be
known."--Souzay, IV. 159. M. Boillon, of Belleherbe, is arrested "for
being present at the primary assembly of the canton of Vaucluse, and
when called upon to accept the Constitutional act, leaving without
voting."]
[Footnote 1121: Moniteur, XVII., 11. (Instructions on the mode of
accepting the Constitution).--Sauzay IV., 158.--Moniteur, XVII., 302.
(Speech by Garat, August 2.) "I have dispatched commissioners to push
the Constitutional Act through the primary assemblies."--Durand-
Maillane. 150. "The envoys of the departments were taken from the
sans-culotterie then in fashion, because they ruled in the Convention."]
[Footnote 1122: Sauzay, IV., 158.]
[Footnote 1123: Moniteur, XVII., 363. (Report of Gossuin to the
Convention, August 9). "There are primary assemblies which have extended
their deliberations beyond the acceptance of the Constitution. This
acceptance being almost unanimous, all other objects form matter for
petitions to be entrusted to competent committees."--Ibid., 333.
(Speech of Delacroix). "The anti-revolutionary delegates sent by the
conspirators we had in the Convention must be punished. (August 6.).]
[Footnote 1124: Moniteur, ibid., 333. Speech and motions of Bazire,
August 8.--XIX., 116. Report of Vouland, January 2, 1794. The pay
of Maillard and his acolytes amounted to twenty-two thousand
livres.--XVIII., 324. (Session of August 5. Speeches of Gossuin,
Thibault and Lacroix.)--Ibid., 90. (Session of Germinal 8, year III.)
Speech by Bourdon de l'Oise: "We have been obliged to pick men out of
the envoys in order to find those disposed for rigorous measures."]
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