(June, 1794.

Wallon, IV., 352.)] [Footnote 33160: Moniteur, XVIII., 663.

(Session of Frimaire 24, report by Lecointre.) "The communes of Thieux, Jully and many others were victims to their brigandage."-- "The stupor in the country is such that the poor sufferers dare not complain of these vexations because, they say, they are only too lucky to have escaped with their lives."-- This time, however, these public brigands made a mistake.

Gibbon's son happens to be Lecointre's tenant farmer.

Moreover, it is only accidentally that he mentions the circumstance to his landlord; "he came to see him for another purpose."-- Cf.