The jacquerie subsides, and it seems as if the newly
restored order would be maintained. He sends for Madame de Bussy to
return, and some months pass away. - The popular imagination,
however, is poisoned, and whatever a gentleman may do, he is no
longer tolerated on his estate. A few leagues from there, on April
29, 1790, M. de Bois-d'Aisy, deputy to the National Assembly, had
returned to his parish to vote at the new elections.[12] "Scarcely
has he arrived," when the commune of Bois-d'Aisy gives him notice
through its mayor "that it will not regard him as eligible." He
attends the electoral meeting which is held in the church there, a
municipal officer in the pulpit inveighs against nobles and priests,
and declares that they must not take part in the elections. All
eyes turn upon M. de Boisd'Aisy, who is the only noble present.
Nevertheless, he takes the civic oath, which nearly costs him dear,
for murmurs arise around him, and the peasants say that he ought to
have been hanged like the lord of Sainte-Colombe, to prevent his
taking the oath.
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