"It must not be supposed for a moment that either the court or the juge-de-paix will take the least notice of this circumstance.

One step in this direction would, in a week, bring 10,000 men on our hands."] [Footnote 2434: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3195.

Letter of the district Directory of Apt, March 28.

"On the 26th of March 600 armed men, belonging to the communes of Apt, Viens, Rustrel, etc.

betook themselves to St.-Martin-de-Castillon and, under the pretense of restoring order, taxed the inhabitants, lodging and feeding themselves at their charge"-- The expeditions extend even to the neighboring departments, one of them March 23, going to Sault, near Forcalquier, in the Upper-Alps.] [Footnote 2435: Ib., F7, 3195.