Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 (of 6) 61/68 Extract from the deliberations of the department Directory and letter to the king, Jan.28, 1792 .-- Letter of M.Lafiteau, president of the Directory, Jan.30. (The mob is composed of from five to six hundred persons. The president is wounded on the forehead by a sword-cut and obliged to leave the town.) Feb. 20, following this, a deputy of the department denounces the Directory as unpatriotic.] [Footnote 2463: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3223. Letter of M.de Riolle, colonel of the gendarmerie, Jan. |