Volume 2 (of 6) 52/64 382.] [Footnote 1317: "Archives Nationales," F7 3248. (Letter of the mayor, M. 551.] [Footnote 1319: De Goncourt, "La Societe francaise pendant la Revolution," 37.] [Footnote 1320: "Archives Nationales," D.XXIX.1. Letter of the officers of the bailiwick of Dole, August 24th .-- Sauzay I.128.] [Footnote 1321: There is a similar occurrence at Strasbourg, a few days after the sacking of the town-hall. The municipality having given each man of the garrison twenty sous, the soldiers abandon their post, set the prisoners free at the Pont-Couvert, feast publicly in the streets with the women taken out of the penitentiary, and force innkeepers and the keepers of drinking-places to give up their provisions. |