They then expel unsworn ecclesiastics from the town, and disarm their partisans.

The club of Apt, which is the sole authority, remains in session three days: "the municipal bodies in the vicinity appear before it, apologize for themselves, protest their civism, and ask as a favor that no detachment be sent to their places.

Individuals are sent for to be interrogated"; several are proscribed, among whom are administrators, members of the court, and the syndic-attorney.

A number of citizens have fled;--the town is purged, while the same purging is pursued in numbers of places in and out of the district.[2434] It is, indeed, attractive business.
It empties the purses of the ill-disposed, and fills the stomachs of patriots; it is agreeable to be well entertained, and especially at the expense of one's adversaries; the Jacobin is quite content to save the country through a round of feastings.

Moreover, he has the satisfaction of playing king among his neighbors, and not only do they feed him for doing them this service, but, again, they pay him for it.[2435]--All this is enlivening, and the expedition, which is a "sabbath," ends in a carnival.