of Pierre-en-Cize (prison) to the thirty-two priests confined there by
the old municipality, without indictment, without any charge whatever
against them, solely because they were priests."

Thus, at Lyons, the pretended aristocrats were, then, not only
republicans but democrats and radicals, loyal to the established
régime, and submissive to the worst of the revolutionary laws, while
the same state of things prevailed at Bordeaux, at Marseilles and even
at Toulon.[71] And furthermore, they accepted the outrages of May 31
and June 2;[72] they stopped contesting the usurpations of Paris; they
no longer insisted on the return of the excluded deputies. On the 2nd
of August at Bordeaux, and the 30th of July at Lyons, the Committee-
Extraordinary of Public Safety resigned; there no longer existed any
rival assembly opposed to the Convention. After the 24th of July,[73]
Lyons solemnly recognized the supreme and central authority, reserving
nothing but its municipal franchises. - And better still, in striking
testimony of political orthodoxy, the Council-General of the
department prescribed a civic festival for the 10th of August
analogous to that of Paris. The Lyonnese, already blockaded, indulged
in no hostile manifestation; on the 7th of August they marched out of
their advanced positions to fraternize with the first body of troops
sent against them.[74] They conceded everything, save on one point,
which they could not yield without destruction, namely, the assurance
that they should not be given up defenseless to the arbitrary judgment
of their local tyrants, to the spoliation, proscriptions and revenge
of the Jacobin rabble. In sum, at Marseilles and Bordeaux, especially
at Lyons and Toulon, the sections had revolted only on that account;
acting promptly and spontaneously, the people had thrust aside the
knife which a few ruffians aimed at their throats; they had not been,
and were not now, willing to be "Septemberised," that was their sole