Deliberations of the department Directory, June 13.] [Footnote 2460: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.

376 (session of the Directory of the Pas-du-Calais, July 4, 1792).

The petition, signed by 127 inhabitants of Arras, is presented to the Directory by Robespierre the younger and Geoffroy.

The administrators are treated as impostors, conspirators, etc., while the president, listening to these refinements, says to his colleagues: "Gentlemen, let us sit down; we can attend to insults sitting as well as standing."] [Footnote 2461: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3223.

Letter of M.Valery, syndic-attorney of the department, April 4, 1792.] [Footnote 2462: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3220.