4. Letters of the Administrators
of the Department of Rh?ne-et-Loire, July 6, 1791. (M. Vilet is one
of the signers.) - Mercure de France, October 8, 1791.
[15] Mercure de France, August 20, 1791, the article by Mallet du
Pan. "The details of the picture I have just sketched were all
furnished me by Madame Dumoutet herself." I am "authorized by her
signature to guarantee the accuracy of this narrative."
[16] Mercure de France, August 20, 1791, the article by Mallet du
Pan. "The proceedings instituted at Lyons confirmed this banquet of
cannibals."
[17] The letter of the Department ends with this either na?ve or
ironical expression: "You have now only one conquest to make, that
of making the people obey and submit to the law."
[18] "Archives Nationales," P7, 3,200. See documents relating to
the affair of November 5, 1792, and the events which preceded it or
followed it, and among others "Lettres du Directoire et du
Procureur-syndic du Departement;" "P?tition et M?moire pour les
D?t?nus;" "Lettres d'un T?moin," M.
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