Dissatisfaction at the outrages of May 31 and June 2, was so manifest that the representatives on mission Merline, Gillet, Savestre, and Cagaignac print on the 14th of June a resolution authorising one of their body to go to the Convention and protest "in their name" against the weakness shown by it and against the ursurpations of the Paris commune .-- Sauzay, IV., 260.

At Besancon, in a general assembly of all the administrative, judicial and municipal bodies of the department joined to the commissioners of the section, protest "unanimously" on the 15th of June.] [Footnote 1151: Archives Nationales, Ibid.( Letter of Romme and Prieur, Caen, June 10th, to the committee of Public Safety).

The insurgents are so evidently in the right that Romme and Prieur approve of their own arrest.

"Citizens, our colleagues, this arrest may be of great importance, serve the cause of liberty, maintain the unity of the republic and revive confidence if, as we hasten to demand it of you, you confirm it by a decree which declares us hostages....

We have noticed that among the people of Caen, there is a love of liberty, as well as of justice and docility."] [Footnote 1152: Archives Nationales, AF.II., 46.