(Archives Nationales, D.PP 2 to 5.)] [Footnote 3362: Daubari, "La Demagogie en 1793," XII.

(The expression of an old peasant, near Saint-Emilion, to M.Vatel engaged in collecting information on the last days of Petion, Guadet and Buzot.)] [Footnote 3363: Archives Nationales, D.p I., 5.

(Petition of Claude Defert, miller, and national agent of Turgy.) Numbers of mayors, municipal officers, national agents, administrators and notables of districts and departments solicit successors, and Albert compels many of them to remain in office .-- (Joint letter of the entire municipality of Landreville; letter of Charles, stone-cutter, mayor of Trannes; Claude Defert, miller, national agent of Turgy; of Elegny, meat-dealer; of a wine-grower; municipal official at Merrex, etc.) The latter writes: "The Republic is great and generous; it does not desire that its children should ruin themselves in attending to its affairs; on the contrary, its object is to give salaried (emolumentaires) places to those who have nothing to live on."-- Another, Mageure, appointed mayor of Bar-sur-Seine writes, Pluviose 29, year III.: "I learned yesterday that some persons of this community would like to procure for me the insidious gift of the mayoralty," and he begs Albert to turn aside this cup.] [Footnote 3364: "Souvenirs de M.Hua," 178-205.

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P..., mayor of Crepy-au-Mont, knew how to restrain some low fellows who would have been only too glad to revolutionize his village....