The things we do!

" Thus, in
possession of force, it makes use of it, and in the first place
against justice. -- A popular insurrection had been suppressed in
the month of August 1789, and the three principal leaders, Rebecqui,
Pascal, and Granet, had been imprisoned in the Chateau d'If. They
are the friends of the municipal authorities, and they must be set
free. At the demand of this body the affair is taken out of the
hands of the grand-pr?v?t and put into those of the s?n?chauss?e,
the former, meanwhile, together with his councilors, undergoing
punishment for having performed their duty. The municipality, on
its own authority, forbids them from further exercise of their
functions. They are publicly denounced, "threatened with poniards,
the scaffold, and every species of assassination." [30] No printer
dares publish their defense, for fear of "municipal annoyances." It
is not long before the royal procureur and a councillor are reduced
to seeking refuge in Fort Saint-Jean, while the grand-pr?v?t after
having resisted a little longer, leaves Marseilles in order to save
his life.


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