Italianism has struck its roots deep here, and I fear that they are very hardy."] [Footnote 2439: The details of these occurrences may be found in Andre and in Soulier, "Histoire de la Revolution Avignonaise." The murder of their seven principal opponents, gentlemen, priests and artisans, took place June 11, 1790.--"Archives Nationales," DXXIV.3.

The starting-point of the riots is the hostility of the Jansenist Camus, deputy to the Constituent Assembly.

Several letters, the first from April, 1790, may be found in this file, addressed to him from the leading Jacobins of Avignon, Mainvielle, Raphel, Richard, and the rest, and among others the following (3 July, 1790): "Do not abandon your work, we entreat you.

You, sir, were the first to inspire us with a desire to be free and to demand our right to unite with a generous nation, from which we have been severed by fraud."-- As to the political means and enticements, these are always the same.Cf., for instance, this letter of a protege, in Avignon, of Camus, addressed to him July 13, 1791: "I have just obtained from the commune the use of a room inside the Palace, where I can carry on my tavern business..

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