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Authors: Timothy Tackett
Full documentation of sources cited in the Notes is provided in the Bibliography.
i. Antoine-Francois Delandine, Memorial historique des Etats generaux, 5 vols.
(n.p., 1789), 3: 4.
i. Aimond, Histoire de Varennes; and Beauvalet-Boutouyrie.
2. Unless otherwise noted, the account that follows is taken from the minutes
of the municipality of Varennes on June 23 and June 27, 1791, as reprinted
in Fournel, 31o-329; from the account of Jean-Baptiste Droner in AP 27:
508-509; and from Aimond, Enigme and Histoire de Varennes. The last two
works, by an outstanding local historian, relied on documents in the archives of Varennes destroyed in 1914, and on local oral and written testimonies now apparently lost.
3. Fournel, 311.
4. Fournel, 322; Fischbach, 91.
5. For this and the following paragraphs, see especially Aimond, Histoire de
Varennes, 288-313.
6. AD Meuse, L 2144.
7. Aimond, Histoire de Varennes, 292-293.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 293; AD Meuse, L 1266.
1o. Aimond, Histoire de Varennes, 298-299.
it. Aimond, Enigme, 38-39; Aimond, Histoire de Varennes, 308-310; Aimond,
Histoire religieuse, 112, 192; Boutier and Boutry.
12. Aimond, Histoire de Farennes, 304-308; Tackett, Religion, Revolution, and
Regional Culture, 343.
13. Aimond, Enigme, 42-43; Aimond, Histoire de Varennes, 301-302.
14. For this and the following paragraph: Aimond, Enigme, 31, 44-45, III;
Aimond, Histoire de Varennes, 299-300, 315-316.
15. AP 27: 544.
16. Aimond, Enigme, 39-41, 111; letter from Sauce, July 21, 1791, AD
Ardennes, L 78.
17. Raigecourt, 187-195; Aimond, Enigme, 126.
18. Choiseul-Stainville, 90-92; Damas, 230-232.
19. Fournel, 321.
20. Fournel, 323; AP 27: 508.
21. Letter from Sauce, July 21, 1791, AD Ardennes, L 78.
22. Lesort, 10-11; Pionnier, 108.
23. AN D XXIX his 36 (1), dos. 370.
24. Lesort, 10-12, 14-15; Bimbenet, 187-193, 235-238; Fournel, 335; Pionnier,
108; AD Marne, i L 329; AD Aisne, L 605; AD Haute-Marne, L 274.
25. Aimond, Histoire de Varennes, 326; Aimond, Enigme, 149-152; Fournel,
324.