To speak with
exactness, the class in question receives blows without returning
them, and when it does take up arms, it is always with the bourgeois
and the National Guard, at the request of the magistrates, in
conformity with the law, and for the protection of persons and
property. The nobles try to avoid being either killed or robbed,
nothing more: for nearly three years they raise no political banner.
In the towns where they exert the most influence and which are
denounced as rebellious, for ex-ample in Mende and Arles, their
opposition is limited to the suppression of riots, the restraining
of the common people, and ensuring respect for the law, It is not
the new order of things against which they conspire, but against
brutal disorder. - At Mende," says the municipal body,[1] "we had
the honor of being the first to furnish the contributions of 1790.
We supplied the place of our bishop and installed his successor
without disturbance, and without the assistance of any foreign force
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