We fought them
a pitched battle in the streets, under the leadership of your
namesake Moreau, the provost, and we so peppered them that they were
glad to take shelter in the Cordelier Convent. That is the end of
their resistance to the royal authority and the people's will."
He ran on at great speed detailing the events that had taken place,
and finally came to the matter which had, he announced, been causing
him to hunt for Andre-Louis until he had all but despaired of
finding him.
Nantes was sending fifty delegates to the assembly of Rennes which
was to select the deputies to the Third Estate and edit their cahier
of grievances. Rennes itself was being as fully represented, whilst
such villages as Gavrillac were sending two delegates for every two
hundred hearths or less. Each of these three had clamoured that
Andre-Louis Moreau should be one of its delegates. Gavrillac wanted
him because he belonged to the village, and it was known there what
sacrifices he had made in the popular cause; Rennes wanted him
because it had heard his spirited address on the day of the shooting
of the students; and Nantes - to whom his identity was unknown -
asked for him as the speaker who had addressed them under the name
of Omnes Omnibus and who had framed for them the memorial that was
believed so largely to have influenced M.
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