- Letter of the king's commissioner, August 22.
[76] A sort of export duty.-[TR.]
[77] "Archives Nationales," P7, 3204. - Letter, from the
Directory of the Department, June 2, 1791; September 8 and 22. -
Letter from the Minister of Justice, May 15, 1791. - Letter from
M. de Lentilhac, September 2. - Letter from M. Melon-Padon, Royal
Commissioner, September. - Mercure de France, May 14, 1791.
(Letter of an eye-witness, M.de Loyac, April 25, 1791.)
[78] "Archives Nationales," F7. 3204. Letters from M. de Saint-
Victour, September 25, October 2 and 10, 1791. - Letter from the
steward of his estate, September 18.
CHAPTER III. Development of the ruling Passion.
I. Attitude of the nobles. Their moderate resistance.
IF popular passion ended in murder it was not because resistance was
great or violent. On the contrary, never did an aristocracy undergo
dispossession with so much patience, or employ less force in the
defense of its prerogatives, or even of its property.
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