"-- Letter of Megle, recruiting sergeant of the La Mark regiment, arrested along with two of his comrades.

"The corps of Mandrins which arrested us set us at liberty...
We were arrested because we refused to join them, and on our refusal we were daily threatened with the gallows."] [Footnote 2441: Mortimer-Ternaux, I.379 (note on Jourdan, by Faure, deputy) .-- Barbaroux, "Memoires"(Ed.

Dauban), 392.

"After the death of Patrix a general had to be elected.

Nobody wanted the place in an army that had just shown so great a lack of discipline.