In effect, all, beginning with the places of battalion leaders and reaching to those of corporals, are exclusively filled by their partisans.

The result is that the honest, to whom serving with men regarded by them with aversion is repugnant, employ substitutes instead of mounting guard themselves, the security of the town being in the hands of those who themselves ought to be watched."] [Footnote 33140: Archives Nationales, F.7, 3273.

(Letter of Merard, former administrator and judge in 1790 and 1791, in years III., IV.
and V., to the Minister, Apt, Pluviose 15, year III., with personal references and documentary evidence.) "I can no longer refrain at the sight of so many horrors....

The justices of the peace and the director of the jury excuse themselves on the ground that no denunciations or witnesses are brought forward.

Who would dare appear against men arrogating to themselves the title of superior patriots, foremost in every revolutionary crisis, and with friends in every commune and protectors in all high places?
The favor they enjoyed was such that the commune of Gordes was free of any levy of conscripts and from all requisitions.