On the illegal approach of the Marseilles army, M.de Dampmartin, military commander, orders the Arlesians to rise in a body.

Nobody comes forward.

Wives hide away their husbands' guns in the night.

Only one hundred volunteers are found to act with the regular troops.] [Footnote 2456: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3224.

Speech of M.
Saint-Amans, vice-president of the Directory of Lot-et-Garonne, to the mayor of Tonneins, April 20 and the letter of the syndic-attorney-general to M.Roland, minister, April 22: "According to the principles of the mayor of Tonneins, all resistance to him is aristocratic, his doctrine being that all property-owners are aristocrats.