But now a third largest Deputation is indignantly sent by many roads: refused audience on arriving, it meets to take council; invites Lafayette and all Patriot Bretons in Paris to assist; agitates itself; becomes the Breton Club, first germ of--the Jacobins' Society.

(A.F.de Bertrand-Moleville, Memoires Particuliers (Paris, 1816), I.ch.i.

Marmontel, Memoires, iv.
27.) So many as eight Parlements get exiled: (Montgaillard, i.

308.) others might need that remedy, but it is one not always easy of appliance.

At Grenoble, for instance, where a Mounier, a Barnave have not been idle, the Parlement had due order (by Lettres-de-Cachet) to depart, and exile itself: but on the morrow, instead of coaches getting yoked, the alarm-bell bursts forth, ominous; and peals and booms all day: crowds of mountaineers rush down, with axes, even with firelocks,--whom (most ominous of all!) the soldiery shows no eagerness to deal with.