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[24] Mercure de France, January 7, 1792. M. Granchier de Riom
petitions the Directory of his Department in relation to the
purchase of the cemetery, where his father had been interred four
years before; his object is to prevent it from being dug up, which
was decreed, and to preserve the family vault. He at the same time
wishes to buy the church of Saint-Paul, in order to insure the
continuance of the masses in behalf of his father's soul. The
Directory replies (December 5, 1791): "considering that the motives
which have determined the petitioner in his declaration are a
pretense of good feeling under which there is hidden an illusion
powerless to pervert a sound mind, the Directory decides that the
application of the sieur Granchier cannot be granted."
[25] De Ferri?res, II. 268 (April 19, 1791).
[26] De Montlosier, II. 307, 309, 312.
[27] Moniteur, VI. 556. Letter of M d'Aymar, commodore, November 18,
1790.
[28] Mercure de France, May 28, and June 16, 1791 (letters from
Cahors and Castelnau, May 18).
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